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Old July 29th, 2006, 12:29 AM
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DWL-650 (CardBus)

I recently bought a DWL-650 wireless card for my Wallstreet II. I read that this card would work with a free wireless driver from a site I really don't feel like finding again. Well, now that I have it, to my dismay, it turns out that evidently D-Link changed the chipset on this card without changing the model number. The card that was supposed to work is PCMCIA. This card is CardBus. I'm just trying to find any workaround to get this thing to work. I need a driver of sorts that will make a CardBus revision of a DWL-650 work with Panther.
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Which revision is the card?

IOXperts is the site you were referring to:

http://www.ioxperts.com/devices_80211b.html

As far as I know, the only way is to either get the PCMCIA version of to use Linux (don't know exactly if your revision is supported under that either, but I wouldn't be surprised if it is).

I was also checking to see if there might have been a port of NDISulater (aka "Project Evil") for Mac OS X. NDISulator is basically the NDISwrapper for BSD. Unfortunately, I haven't even found anything under that other than some other people looking for the same support under Mac OS X.
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Thanks for your research nixgeek.

I'm a bit of a geek myself, and I hate it when I can't solve my own little dilema...

I've seen a couple sites around that seemingly offer support under Linux, but I'm not sure I'm comfortable switching OS's to surf the net or modifying my BSD layer. Heh.

Guess I'm stuck selling the thing unless somebody decides to write a driver for it.
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