Davepet
02-07-2003, 12:03 AM
A couple of us over on the Xandros board have ben trying to get these to work.
I found something interesting & wanted to warn everyone.
There arre 3 versions of this card, all with the same model#
The old ones are prism based & work fine in Linux
The newer ones are (apparently) based on the Texas Instrument chips & there are not currently any drivers for Linux.
Someone is working on it, but TI is not revealing the info needed to write the drivers.
Thing that burns me is that DLink doesn't mention this prominately on their website, in fact they have a link to Linux drivers for the 650. It's only when digging into the support area that you can discover that there are 3 versions of this model.
WHY can't they change the model# when they change the HW??
Here's the link to our discussion at Xandros, if you want more details:
http://forums.xandros.com/viewtopic.php?p=6881&sid=bd89df4f053e49065d291e7a44d53ce2#6881
Dave
I found something interesting & wanted to warn everyone.
There arre 3 versions of this card, all with the same model#
The old ones are prism based & work fine in Linux
The newer ones are (apparently) based on the Texas Instrument chips & there are not currently any drivers for Linux.
Someone is working on it, but TI is not revealing the info needed to write the drivers.
Thing that burns me is that DLink doesn't mention this prominately on their website, in fact they have a link to Linux drivers for the 650. It's only when digging into the support area that you can discover that there are 3 versions of this model.
WHY can't they change the model# when they change the HW??
Here's the link to our discussion at Xandros, if you want more details:
http://forums.xandros.com/viewtopic.php?p=6881&sid=bd89df4f053e49065d291e7a44d53ce2#6881
Dave