D-Link DWL-650H

[David Gibson]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 05:53:07PM +1000, Johnny Shih wrote:
> Jan Rychter wrote:
> 
> >>>>>>"David" == David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au> write
> >>>>>>
> >David> I messed some things up on the 0.12 versions which affects
> >David> Symbol cards like the DWL-650H (the DWL-650 and DWL-650H are
> >David> very different)
> >David> - I don't have any Symbol cards to test with, unfortunately.
> >
> >David> Try either 0.11b, or the current "testing" version.
> >
> >The 0.11b version works for me with the additional "double reset" patch
> >(attached).
> >
> >It's not perfect, it sometimes hangs and prints endless stuff like:
> >
> >Jul 15 13:39:29 tnuctip kernel: eth0: Error -110 writing packet to BAP
> >Jul 15 13:39:29 tnuctip kernel: eth0: Error -110 writing Tx descriptor to 
> >BAP
> >Jul 15 13:40:00 tnuctip last message repeated 8140 times
> >Jul 15 13:41:01 tnuctip last message repeated 17195 times
> >Jul 15 13:41:06 tnuctip last message repeated 1552 times
> >
> >but overall it makes the card work, so I'm almost happy.
> >
> >good luck,
> > 
> >
> 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? 

Um, well, it certainly shouldn't...

> 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
> 
> 

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