D-Link DWL-650H

[Johnny Shih]

Johnny Shih wrote:

> I tried "testing" driver and it works after many times of restarting 
> the card using cardctl......it looked like it receives erroneous 
> packets occasionally.
> David, I am wondering if the driver does changes to the card 
> physically? The reason I am asking because I've encountered this 
> strange problem after installing the driver. The computer (a laptop) 
> uses this DWL-650H card is actually a client which shares internet 
> connection off my host desktop computer (using DWL-500). Before the 
> driver, my laptop client is able to use internet and achieves high 
> speed (500K/s) under Windows XP whereas the host is running under Red 
> Hat 7.3 with dhcpd (connecting to Telstra BigPond Cable)...etc....now 
> with the same setup, wireless connection would just drop out whenever 
> the client is trying to access internet at high speed (e.g. download 
> files from local Telstra site) and after that, it's never able to 
> reconnect again and would need to do /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart 
> on my host computer.....any ideas?
>
> Jan, thanks for the file. Just one little thing, I am too stupid to 
> figure out how to actually install the patch, would you mind 
> instructing me?
>
> Thanks
> Johnny

Ok David, I think I made a mistake. It looks like to incompatibility of 
WEP between your orinoco driver and wlan-ng's driver. After turning if 
off, it works fine...was using 128bit encryption, 26 hexdecimal digits.

Johnny