Non-working DWL-520

Patrick Cole z at amused.net
Sun Aug 11 15:19:58 EST 2002


Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 07:07:22PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> I've just been trying out a DWL-520 which I bought on eBay.
> It was sealed, but does not seem to be found
> either in Windows-2000 or Linux (lspci).
> 
> Have there been problems with this card,
> or is there some reason why it is not listed by lspci?
> 
> I tried the card in 2 computers;
> one had PCI-2.1 and the other PCI-2.0 .
> I wondered if one actually had to have PCI-2.2
> even to see the card?
> 
> I notice that the terminal "legs" on the card
> are a little shorter than on most cards;
> and it seems seems significantly harder to "bed" properly.

Yes, it is true, the DWL-520 will only work on PCI 2.2 compliant
systems.

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Patrick Cole <Patrick.Cole at anu.edu.au>
Programmer, the John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU 
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