Prism2, DWL-650 and ISA adaptor problems

Matthew Vella mvella at flexsoft.com.au
Thu Nov 1 08:33:21 EST 2001


>
> This is wrong. My DWL 650 is a 16 bit card and work perfectly
> in a ISA-Pcmcia slot (except for the usual Intersil firmware bugs).
> The problem is that the card has a buggy CIS and doesn't
> advertise voltage properly. With orinoco_cs, you use the
> "ignore_cis_vcc" trick as indicated in the release notes.
>

Thanks for the correction.

I read the specs on the DLink site, and when the card I have wouldn't work
in various PCMCIA machines, but DID in a Cardbus machine, I just assumed the
manufacturer's information was correct.

I am very pleased to find out they (and I) were wrong :-)

Matt.






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