On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 01:12, Norbert Kamenicky wrote:
> Tom Wesley wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Has anyone had any experience sharing internet access with a dlink
> >card?  The card is a DWL-510.
> >  
> >
> No, but I used DLINK DWL900AP+ and can say
> I had a LOT of troubles with it ...
> 
> i.e. it freezes totaly if some other wifi (with different ssid)
> transmits on the same channel
> (The only solution is to shield/unmount the antenna and
> off/on power, if setup change via web iface is needed !!!)
> 
> 
> DLINK uses Texas Instruments chipset ACX100, so
> AFAIK there are two possibilities how to get it work:
> 
> 1.
>   use linux native open source driver, which you can
>  find on   http://www.minitar.com
>  
> 2.
>   use windblowz driver from this site:
>     http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/
> 
> Please let us to know your results.
> 
> noro

From looking around more on the internet it seems that the DLink I have
uses a Broadcom chipset, which is only supported by the driverloader you
mentioned.  Although it does seem to correctly detect the device, even
to the stage that it shows as eth1, it seems to make my system a little
unstable.  And I have to admit I'm not up for paying money for a driver
if I can exchange the hardware and no additional cost.

Does anyone know of a card that will do what I need?  There is a useful
looking post on the forum [1] that suggests a Prism2 based card, so I
will probably go along that route.

Thanks,

[1] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=21919&highlight=hostap


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Tom Wesley

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