Easy instructions for wireless card installation?

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 16:37:33 -0600
Rick Sivernell <res005ru at verizon.net> wrote:

>   I have a SMC2531W-B, I have had it for 3 days now. Buy it, plug it in,
>   using
> gentoo 2.4.20 r8 kernel. Use the prism2_cd driver with the kernell. Reboot
> and enjoy. Paid $69 + tax at CompUSA. D-Link's DWL-650 could not make it
> work. I do have a D-Linkd wireless/wired router with SSID set to mynetwork
> name and no wep set. I left all options of essid & etc at "" inconf file.
> Thast was it for this card on my laptop.

The DWL-650 uses a TI chipset. There is an open source driver for this, but
it was a bit unstable. I went with the linixant driverloader for this card
and it works perfect on Gentoo. There has been a rumor that TI are about to
release a Linux driver for this chipset. Seems they are using it internally.
I have not looked lately, but as of October there was nothing.


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