From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 13 16:41:17 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FD7B16A4CE for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:41:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailtest.sd73.bc.ca (mailtest.sd73.bc.ca [142.24.13.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00CE643D3F for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:41:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailtest.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A5E1F1FE1 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 08:41:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailtest.sd73.bc.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailtest.sd73.bc.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 39837-01-6 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 08:41:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from s9.sbo (s9.sbo [192.168.0.9]) by mailtest.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 817C0F1FDC for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 08:41:14 -0800 (PST) From: Freddie Cash Organization: School District 73 - Kamloops, BC To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 08:41:13 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <20050112120059.33F6416A4D4@hub.freebsd.org> <20050113152938.GL80381@leia.lambermont.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20050113152938.GL80381@leia.lambermont.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200501130841.13833.fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at sd73.bc.ca Subject: Re: Problem with D-Link DWL-650+ X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:41:17 -0000 On January 13, 2005 07:29 am, Hans Lambermont wrote: > Dan Pelleg wrote: > > Zoran Kolic writes: > > > > hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Texas Instruments (TI)' > > > > > > I was interested about the same product and found that there is > > > card named DWL-650. It should be prism based card and probably > > > what you want to buy. Your "+" card is TI based, despite almost > > > the same name. (Hard to believe.) > > > > Not only that, but even for the DWL-650 they changed the chipset. > > In particular, if it's the "ver. P" kind, it is NOT supported > > natively. > There is another one : My DWL-650 has an Atheros 5211 in it > (802.11a/b). Works fine with ATH(4), but I do see some > minutes-periodic 'hickups'. The 802.11g and 802.11a D-Link cards have different names than the standard 802.11b cards: DWL-A650 for 802.11a, DWL-G650 for 802.11b/g, and DWL-AG650 for 802.11a/b/g. Again, though, within those names, different revisions have different chipsets. For instance, the DWL-G650 Rev. A uses a PrismGT chipset, while the DWL-G650 Rev. B and C use two different Atheros chipsets. You really need to read through the support documents for each wireless card to figure out exactly what you are getting. It's a real pain buying wireless cards. Why can't the manufacturers give different names based on the chipset used, instead of just changing the revision level?? Would make things so much simpler. -- Freddie Cash, CCNT CCLP Helpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca