I've been bitten by that one. That's how I learned to ask on mailing 
lists before buying :-/

Apparently the DLink 650+ has the new, proprietary,
non-yet-reverse-engineered chipset. The 650 seems to have tons of
support on linux and *bsd. I didn't look carefully enough and
bought the new one, and have since sold it, for less than I bought it
for, of course. Grr.

Thanks for all the advice. I'm now armed with info, and off I go
hunting for deals!

-ken
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On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 03:45:47PM -0800, Kevin Lahey wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 13:09:23 -0800
> Tyler Chao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > DWL-650 is not a Linksys card.  It is a D-Link card.  Just FYI.
> 
> And it is no longer PRISM2 based.  The card is completely different;  it
> now uses some ADM chipset.  And it is a Cardbus card!  There are no
> *BSD drivers for the new chipset;  I think that there is a Linux driver
> available, although it may be binary-only.  Ugh.
> 
> I find it astonishing that a vendor would release a product with completely
> different guts but the same exact name.  WTF was D-Link thinking!?
> 
> Anyway, good luck with your search for PRISM2 cards,
> 
> Kevin
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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