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Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 10:47:31 -0500
Subject: Re: D-Link DWL-520
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On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 03:51 AM, Jose M. Alcaide wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 09:56:20PM -0500, David J Duchscher wrote:
>> On Monday, July 1, 2002, at 09:39 PM, Neal Nelson wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone know if the D-Link DWL-520 PCI wireless card works with
>>> -Stable?
>>>
>>> I'm looking to get one for my firewall but I can't find it mentioned 
>>> in
>>> the list of compatible hardware.
>>
>> I have one and it works really well.  It uses the wi driver.
>
> Are you using 128-bit WEP? There are problems with the Prism-2.5 based
> DWL-650 (see PR kern/39928) and I wonder whether the DWL-520 is also
> affected or not.

It might be.  I consider WEP to be pretty much worthless so I use other
means to secure the network.  I willing to test the card if there is
interest in knowing for sure.

DaveD


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