Wireless, D-LINK

[Rick Stevens]

Jeff wrote:
> --- Bill Spears <bspears at easystreet.com> wrote:
> 
>>D-Link has a base station and cardbus card 
>>combination out for a very
>>attractive price.  They go under the name AirPlus
>>XtremeG(perhaps D-Link
>>has been acquired by a record company).  Their model
>>id's are DI-624 and
>>DWL-650 respectively.  The packaging claims that the
>>DI-624 works under
>>Linux, but the card does not.  Since this appears to
>>be rather bleeding
>>edge, I was wondering if anyone is using these or
>>can at least advise.
>>Thank you.
>>-- 
>>Bill Spears <bspears at easystreet.com>
> 
> 
> Hey Bill,
>   I haven't used the card (laptop has a built in
> broadcom and I use it with http://ndiswrapper.sf.net
> ), but look here:
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&postid=621465#post621465
> and here
> http://www.linux-wlan.com/

I can assure you that the D-Link DWL-650+ card (the one with the curved
antenna) will NOT work with Linux as it uses a TI chipset and they won't
release the API to open source.  It works quite well with ndiswrapper,
however.
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