DWL-650 Revision M

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--- Brian Henning <brian.henning at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> If someone could help me out that would be great. I
> currently own a wireless
> card Dlink (DWL-650 Revision M) and I am not able to
> get FreeBSD 6.1 to load
> the wi driver. I perused the wi man pages and found
> that the D-Link DWL-650
> is on the list of supported cards. I question
> whether or not this includes
> all revisions of the DWL-650.
> 
> Can someone please confirm that the DWL-650 Revision
> M is or is NOT
> supported?
> 
> Maybe I need to purchase a new wireless card that
> will be supported.
> Is this perhaps the best way to go at the point?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brian
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I believe this is the WiFi card I have. The SuperMMimo
or whatever extension 108Mbps throughput and all that
good stuff...

Use the Windows XP driver file and inf and use the
NDIS emulation driver builder to generate a kernel
module for that card. I know this makes the driver, I
have not verified that I can connect yet with it, but
I have heard this is the best way to do it. 

I know it tells me a file is missing
/compat/ndis/Reg?????? something or other. I have not
looked into the man pages for this file but I would
have to guess it is just a registry layer for tweaking
the driver. However the module loads without errors
and ifconfig says the device is detected, and all the
lights on the card start blinking. I just have a nasty
WPA key that I've been too lazy to copy from my
Windows partition to verify that everything is indeed
working (and I refuse to leave my connection insecure
even for a second or three.) Also haven't had time to
address the missing Registry compat file.

This assumes your are using Rel_6 (which you are, if
one can read one has a fortune...) I know there is a
nice simple script file that does all the work for
you, the name just escapes me but the ndis manpage is
a great place to start. 

good luck


-brian