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5680 Wireless G issues

post #1 of 4
12/30/03 at 11:39pm
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Ok so previously under xp my built in wireless G would show 3 networks I could connect to. These were not my networks, but it was nice to see the card was working even if I wasnt going to connect to them.

Recently however I am showing no wireless networks available. Under Linux however the 3 networks still show up.

My questions are these

1) Could I have possibly screwed something up - I have uninstalled/reinstalled the drivers several times.
2) Could the networks be specifically locking me out (though why they show in linux is vexing)

Any ideas/suggestions would be most welcome as I am about to go out and buy a wireless router and would like to be sure its going to work with xp.

EDIT One last thing - does anyone else find it f**king annoying that there are no drivers for these mini-pci cards anywhere. Friggin intersil sold the wireless division and the morons who bought it have jack squat on their site.
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post #2 of 4
1/4/04 at 10:14pm
I was about to ask for the exact card and chip used, before seeing this. thanks, bratag as usual.

The windows drivers are now nowhere, and the drivers which sager sent me, and I presume everyone with the g card were the intersil prism generics.

That means lspci brings up harris D-link DWL-g650 A1
Windows shows the card in device management as the chipset intersil prism a-b-g - go figure.

Hopefully, we shall have the exact card model monday. According to the prism 54 site and the d-link site there are three hardware versions of the cardbus, so I am presuming, probably wrongly that the internal pci is the same...

I'll try again tonight to get things working in debian, but, the linuxant wrappers do not seem to create a module which is visible to the 2.4.23 kernel.
But the windows drivers suck as well, as my kids would say.

D-link has apparently drivers that allow wpa, as does the aphost site for linux.

This cannot be intended to be so difficult, can it?

best wishes,
M
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post #3 of 4
1/7/04 at 11:29am
Worse, brat, I noticed that the selfsame drivers, working under driverloader in linux, have far less dropped connexions.
This should not be so.

Best,
M
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post #4 of 4
1/7/04 at 11:41am
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I say again - windows = crap
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