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[Alain <alain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the pointer.  While I didn't find a real solution in the posts
there, it did give information that helped me find the problem.

The /etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.conf file contains TWO entries that match the
DWL-650.  To get the card working, one needs to change the first (the one
that says DWL-650) to use orinoco_cs instead of prism2_cs:

card "D-Link DWL-650 11Mbps 802.11b WLAN Card"
   version "D", "Link DWL-650 11Mbps WLAN Card", "Version 01.02"
   bind "orinoco_cs"

And comment out the second one (3rd one down):

#card "Intersil PRISM2 Reference Design 11Mb/s WLAN Card"
#   manfid 0x0156, 0x0002
#   bind "prism2_cs"


Once that is done, restart the machine (or SIGHUP cardmgr), insert the
card and it comes up as eth0.

(Note that this solution assumes external PCMCIA is used, which I think
is the default in SuSE.)


Alain


On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 10:00:59AM -0500, Rodd Ahrenstorff wrote:
>On Friday 17 May 2002 9:48 am, Alain wrote:
><snip>
>> Anyone know how to get this card to work on SuSE 8.0?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alain
>
>Alain, I know there was a big discussion of this wireless NIC (or similar 
>using the same driver) on the SuSE news list.  Check that using Knode for 
>mucho info....(alt.os.linux.suse) do a search for 'wireless'.
>
>Hope that helps...
>
>-- 
>Rodd Ahrenstorff
>www.pclinuxonline.com