D-Link DWL-520+
Marcos Biscaysaqu
marcos at thepacific.net
Sun Oct 5 16:25:53 PDT 2003
That wireless card has Texas Instrument chipset and doesn't work on
freebsd, I have got a driver for linux but is very dodgy.
I wont recomend you use this wireless card.
Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 2:49 AM +0400 2003/10/06, tokza wrote:
>
>>> So far as I know, there are no open-source drivers for any 22mpbs
>>> card anywhere.
>>
>>
>> Hm, what does "22 mbps" mean? As I know, DWL-520+ is a
>> 802.11b-standart based
>> card and the max speed is 11mbps as mentioned in this standart.
>
>
> In this case, there is only one vendor I know of that sells
> 802.11b equipment that is also capable of handling 22mbps speeds. That
> would be TI, and USR is one of their major partners. It is the TI
> chipset that I am talking about.
>
> See
> <http://www.usr.com/products/networking/wireless-product.asp?sku=USR2210>.
>
>
> D-Link is also a reseller of TI chipset hardware. See
> <http://presslink.dlink.com/pr/?prid=27>.
>
>>
>> Reading card
>> specification I thought that "22 mbps with AirPlus series" is a kind
>> of PR or
>> adverticement :-)
>> Or is this a kind of "enhanced 802.b" standart? Where can I read
>> smth about
>> this?
>
>
> See above.
>
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Marcos Biscaysaqu
Systems Administrator
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