On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:12:04 -0500, Covington, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 11:59 -0500, Billy Holmes wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > Or take the NIC back to the store and buy something else except I'm > > > feeling burned. I bought a 520 and it's in my son's machine and > > > working. I buy one for my wife's machine and find DLink changed the > > > chipset and doesn't mark that on the box in any way. How can I be sure > > > of anything working under Linux. This is frustrating. > > > > some vendors are putting "works with linux" or something similar if it > > has a known driver (or supported binary one from their site). > > As with any hardware, it's best to put in some research as to the > product's reputation before purchase. > > Chris
As a final follow-up for anyone who might search out this thread at a later date, it did turn out that you could tell which card you were getting by looking closely at a small white tab DLink places on the backside of the box. DWL-520 - Rev D2 uses the Realtek 802.11b chipset and works fine in ndiswrapper DWL-520 - Rev E1 uses the Prism 2.5 chipset and fails Hope this helps someone in the future. No response necessary back to me. Cheers, Mark -- [email protected] mailing list
