D-link dwl 650+ and suse 9.3

Hi,

I bought a pcmcia wireless card d-link airplus dwl 650+ and after I
installed suse 9.3 on my laptop. Looking in Yast, hardware, it seems the
card is correctly recognised, and the driver assigned is acx_pci or acx100,
I'm not sure, but any case, it doesn't work.

Doing dmesg | more to see boot messages it seems there is an error when
trying to load something called "firmware".

Has somebody succeed making this card work ?

Does somebody know how to fix it ?

Thanx

Horacio wrote:
> Hi,
> Doing dmesg | more to see boot messages it seems there is an error when
> trying to load something called "firmware".

With the card you got a CD with Windows drivers:

These are separate small files found on the Windows' driver CD or in a
downloaded Windows' driver archive.
For the acx100 they are named: RADIO0d.BIN, RADIO11.BIN, RADIO15.BIN,
and WLANGEN.BIN.
You'll need to first create the directory where they need to be
installed, type: mkdir /usr/share/acx, this is the "default" directory
that the driver now looks in for the firmware. Then you'll need to copy
the aforementioned files to that directory, taking care that their names
are preserved, and if necessary changed to be exactly as listed above.
You may not have all of them in your Windows' driver, just copy the ones
that you do have.

The above was taken from "Craig's ACX100/111 Guide for Linux" which you
can find at
http://www.houseofcraig.net/acx100_howto.php

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Horacio wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I bought a pcmcia wireless card d-link airplus dwl 650+ and after I
> installed suse 9.3 on my laptop. Looking in Yast, hardware, it seems the
> card is correctly recognised, and the driver assigned is acx_pci or
> acx100, I'm not sure, but any case, it doesn't work.

Oops. I have owned two Dlink 6x0 cards but both were Atheros chipsets
(madwifi driver). Unfortunately I haven't played with the model you have.

> Doing dmesg | more to see boot messages it seems there is an error when
> trying to load something called "firmware".
>
> Has somebody succeed making this card work ?
>
> Does somebody know how to fix it ?

Maybe you'll get better results from ndis wrapper?

James
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