Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 18:25:34 -0500 From: "Bill O'Hanlon" <wmo@rebma.pro-ns.net> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: D-Link DWL-650 At OfficeMax Message-ID: <20020725232533.GA3314@rebma.pro-ns.net> In-Reply-To: <20020724112513.E71567-100000@mx.dmz.orem.verio.net> References: <000901c230e8$5f6f97d0$8a4c35d1@master> <20020724112513.E71567-100000@mx.dmz.orem.verio.net>
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On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 11:43:21AM -0600, Paul Hart wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Tony Toole wrote: > > > The DWL-650 I just purchased week or so ago for testing is Prism 2.5 based > > (1.3.4 f/w), and is 3.3v. Works well under FreeBSD's wi driver. > > I'd be careful here. Read this thread from last month: > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=203079+0+archive/2002/freebsd-mobile/20020630.freebsd-mobile > > I picked up two of these DWL-650 cards at OfficeMax a couple of weeks ago > and they both exhibit the problem with the wi(4) driver in 4.6-RELEASE as > described above (but I saw it trigger when starting up dstumbler from the > bsd-airtools package). > > My cards and all of the cards in stock at the three OfficeMax stores I > surveyed are the PRISM2.5 + H/W J3 + F/W 1.3.5 variety. Oh, and the > $39.99 price at the stores here seems to be the regular price, no rebates > or sales involved. > > Paul Hart I see the exact same thing that Paul mentions; dstumbler will trigger that "busy bit won't clear" stuff. Also, I found that having WEP enabled triggered the problem during big transfers. With WEP disabled, I don't trigger the problem at all. I experimented with upgrading the firmware. I had bought two DWL-650s at the same time, but one was upgradeable and the other was not. It sounds like there is a lot of variation in these cards. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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