DWL-G650 working!
Dave Rinker
drinker at dsrtech.com
Sat May 22 06:19:14 UTC 2004
followed information below and same success on dell inspiron 8200 with
DWL-G650
Thanks
On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 23:05, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> I had posted in the last few days regarding my Dell Latitude CPx laptop
> and a DWL-G650 wireless adapter.
>
> The good news is that I have it working.
>
> The DWL-G650 I have is a revision A1. This revision uses a prism chip
> set. Subsequent revisions I believe use a different chipset (possibly
> atheros but I am not sure).
>
> After installing FC2 you need to download the tar ball from
> http://prism54.org. The file I downloaded was
> prism54-cvs-latest.tar.bz2.
>
> After downloading I ran the following commands:
>
> tar xjf prism54-cvs-latest.tar.bz2
> cd prism54-cvs-latest
> make clean modules
> (su to root)
> make install
> depmod -a
>
>
> In my case everything worked as expected.
>
> You also need to get firmware which will be downloaded to the card when
> it is initialized. You can get this from
> http://prism54.org/~mcgrof/firmware/. I used the latest one
> 1.0.4.3.arm.
>
> The firmware file needs to go in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware directory.
> This needed to be created:
>
> mkdir -p /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/
>
> copy the 1.0.4.3.arm file to the firmware directory as isl3890.
>
> At this point I went through several iterations with the GUI network
> wizard and network config tools. This is where it got a little
> strange. I had to delete all network interfaces. I also have a xircom
> card for hardwire and modem access. After deleting all interfaces I
> reinserted the DWL-G650 card. At this point the system recognized the
> card. In the network wizard the card was listed as an Intersil ISL3890
> [Prism GT/Prism Duette] card. I created a wireless interface and
> configured the SSID and wep options. Once that was done I was surprised
> to find that the interface was up and running.
>
> The odd thing is that in the network configuration GUI the card is not
> listed as the Intersil ISL3890 as it was initially. It is listed as a
> Xircom Cardbus ethernet.
>
> I suspect that the DWL-G650 card is not listed somewhere and as such is
> not being listed as such.
>
> I also suspect that when I try to use the Xircom card I have that I will
> have to delete all network interfaces and add it back in.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get both cards configured so
> that when I put a card in the correct configuration is used?
>
> Also is there and easy way to manage multiple wireless configurations?
> It is going to be inconvenient to have to reconfigure wep settings for
> different locations and uses.
>
> Hopefully this information will help someone else with this setup.
>
> --
> Scot L. Harris <webid at cfl.rr.com>
>
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