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Topic: DWL-G650, will B5 WORK ALSO

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dgilbert

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Posted: Feb. 14 2006,04:51

I am new to DSL, i want to buy wireless card that works out of box,
I thought dwl-g650 would be good since 802.11g would be supported,
but at stores I only find version v.B5 and when try to buy off internet version not listed. on working list they specify v.c2 will other versions work
or can someone help me find v.C2

JB4x4

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Posted: Feb. 14 2006,10:11

I have the D-Link DWL-G650 "Air-Plus Xtreme G", and it works well. According to the back of the card it is H/W Ver. :B5 and F/W Ver. :2.54. If I have the card plugged in at boot it is auto detected and set up as "ath0". I am using the DWL-G650 on my Compaq 1610 Presario with DSL ver 2.2

dgilbert
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Posted: Feb. 16 2006,03:43

thanks for your response, I went ahead and bought
the same card you have, but it does not come up when
I boot, I am dsl 2.2rc1 and on compaq armada 100s, have any ideas

JB4x4

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Posted: Feb. 16 2006,10:41

I tried mine in 2.2rc1 and it worked also. It may be, that on your Compaq, the card is not autodetected. You could try to manually load the modules from the command prompt (or xterm window). Try:

sudo modprobe ath_hal
sudo modprobe wlan
sudo modprobe ath_pci

(you shouldn't need "ath_pci", but I listed it in just incase)

If everything is working, one light should light up on the card to show it is active. The card shows up as "Atheros Communications, Inc." on the DSL Control Panel, PCMCIA Tool, info window.

Just curious, did you verify that the PCMCIA itself is detected on boot?

dgilbert

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Posted: Feb. 17 2006,01:46

its me again, tried what you said, the green light is on and the card does show up as you said when
go to PCMCIA tool on dsl panel
but when did sudo modprobe ath_pci
it came back with error /lib/modules/2.4.26/net/ath_pci.o: init_module: not such device
it gives me hint saying maybe invalid IO or IRQ parameter
it tells me to try dmesg so i did
got an error that says unable to attach hardware; HAL status 13
any ideas
thanks for your help
any ideas

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