DWL650+ Wireless

[zneeks]

Anyone knows how i can get this card started on my laptop...? Running FC2

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[thepoch]

At first I was going to type out the entire instructions here. But instead I would like to point you to the site that got me going with using D-Link DWL-650+ Cardbus Wireless card. The URL is:

http://www.houseofcraig.net/acx100_howto.php

Goodluck!

[aditrus]

@ zneeks

thepoch is right. this site helped me a lot to make my DWL650+ run in Fedora. In my Dell the driver with fixes in Craig's site works well. I had bad experiences with the lower versions. Its good that this drivers works great. The documentation really helps compiling the driver. The package also includes a script to download firmware files. Those files worked well compared from the firmware driver that comes with the CD.

[zneeks]

Thanks... I will try! ;)

[thepoch]

Here's a little something extra. You can't create the wlan0 device using FC2's system-config-network, as the DWL-650+ (acx100) isn't available in the Wireless cards. What I did was create a file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ called "ifcfg-wlan0".

Contents of the file is (slightly modified):

# D-Link DWL-650+ Wireless Interface
DEVICE=wlan0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
MTU=576
ONBOOT=no
MODE=Auto
CHANNEL=11
RATE=11M
ESSID=any
DEBUG=0x0
#KEY=xxxx-xxxx-xx
#IWPRIV='set_debug 0x00'
HWADDR=01:41:04:f9:b2:02
USERCTL=yes
PEERDNS=yes
TYPE=Wireless
DHCP_HOSTNAME=portablepoch
DOMAIN=
NETMASK=
IPADDR=
GATEWAY=

Basically mine is setup to search for any WAP (ESSID=any), and my HWADDR is what's above. You will obviously have to replace that (i forgot how i found mine). Once the HWADDR is actually correct, you should be able to control the card using FC2's gui. Or you might have to copy the ifcfg-wlan0 file to /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices as well.

Anyway, after that, my wireless is:

Auto-find WAPs. Auto-get IP thru DHCP. Controlable by normal users (me). And it does all this the moment it plugs in. Hope this helps further, as the site I gave doesn't have FC2 specific configurations.

Oh and if you are using WEP, it has to be in a file called "keys-wlan0" format being:

KEY:s:mywepkey12345

Make sure keys-wlan0 is in place together with each copy of ifcfg-wlan0.

Again... good luck!

[aditrus]

thepoch!

this is a great tip! thanks for sharing it to us. this makes it easier to switch network from our office and to a nearby hotspot.

Basically mine is setup to search for any WAP (ESSID=any), and my HWADDR is what's above. You will obviously have to replace that (i forgot how i found mine). Once the HWADDR is actually correct, you should be able to control the card using FC2's gui. Or you might have to copy the ifcfg-wlan0 file to /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices as well.

i think to get the HWADDR value you can run ifconfig then get the HWADDR of wlan0. when module is scuccessfully loaded.

[thepoch]

So thats how I got the HWADDR. I've already forgotten as I've never needed it again. It must have been from instinct that I got it.

Glad it has helped you guys out.

adritus, I noticed you are from the Philippines as well. Join the plug mailing list if you haven't already done so. :D

[kurzer]

I have this DWL-650+ for a longer time now, I got it running under RH9 and FC1, but at the moment I plug it into my laptop under FC2 it freezes.