From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Dec 2 13:18:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DB0937B401 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 13:18:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from manual-override.net (manual-override.net [65.42.236.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81D5443ECF for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 13:18:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@manual-override.net) Received: from chrometoaster (nitrous.localline.com [65.42.236.8]) by manual-override.net (8.12.6/8.7.1) with SMTP id gB2LGhbf034243 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 16:16:43 -0500 (EST) Chris-is-the-man: Yes Message-ID: <00d101c29a48$6d6fc700$1f01010a@chrometoaster> From: "Chris Orr" To: References: <200212012002.17027.cscotts@mindspring.com> <001a01c29a47$02475520$076d5118@beair> Subject: Re: DWL-520+ Card Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 16:18:58 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org *sigh of relief* i almost bought one. instead i bought some belkin f5d6001...i cant find any info on them, but i *think* they use the "wi" driver...and plus they are like $60 on bestbuy.com :) -chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Parusel" To: ; Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 8:27 PM Subject: Re: DWL-520+ Card > > > Reading back it looks like the DWL-520 (Dlink PCI wireless card) was based > on > > the Prism chipset, but the new "Plus" model (which adds support for 22mbps > > dlink stuff) is based on another chipset (TI model?) > > > > I just bought a DWL-520+ and it has virtually nothing written on the > physical > > card and I don't see any marks for TI or otherwise. It's definitely not > > recognized under Free and NetBSD though. > > > > I'm willing to test / do anything else if someone is working on drivers, > > otherwise I'll just get a different supported card. Any news? > > > > thanks, > > Scott > > Hi Scott, > > AFAIK, it's a TI DSP .... Unfortunately, I bought these cards > thinking > there wouldn't be much difference between the 520 and the 520+. > > >From what I could find from google before, the TI DSP is a proprietary > design, with no open source drivers available or available in the near > future. > > I'd suggest returning the 520+'s and getting a pair of 520's, as I did...! > > Good Luck, > Eric > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message