help with D-Link DWL-650: a physical manifestation of pure evil

[David Gibson]

On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 09:50:06PM -0700, Alex Deucher wrote:
> I just bought a linksys wireless router, and a D-link
> DWL-650 wireless ethernet card.  I have now spent the
> better part of 2 days trying to get this POS working. 
> How do you do it?   I have tried just about every
> Howto out there to get this card to work, but alas it
> refuses.  I'm using redhat 7.1 and kernel 2.4.9 using
> the kernel pcmcia drivers.  Initially I tried to use
> the stock redhat kernel using wvlan_cs, but that did
> not work. Next I tried to get it to work using the
> orinoco_cs drivers.  I built and installed 2.4.9 with
> all the necessary options; I installed the wireless
> utilities like iwconfig; I copied the hermes.conf file
> over from the orinoco website and rebooted.  the card
> was detected, but got the:
> 
> orinoco_cs: GetNextTuple: No more items

Is this a laptop or PC with PCI/ISA <-> PCMCIA bridge?  Are you using
the pcmcia drivers from Linus' kernel tree or those from David Hinds
PCMCIA package?

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