Reflash DWL650+?

I too am experiencing problems with a D-Link DWL650+. Is there a way to
flash it?

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Dave wrote:
> I too am experiencing problems with a D-Link DWL650+. Is there a way to
> flash it?

To flash what?

The 520's and 650's (including the "plus" models) don't have flashable eeproms,
but need to load their firmware from the computer they're interfaced to. This
happens during driver initialization. Upgrading your "airplus.bin" and
radio*.bin" files that are in "\windows\system" (for windows) is all that is
really needed.

If you want more details on this, see the Linux project for it at
http://acx100.sourceforge.net and the hacks that were needed to make these cards
work under that OS.

On 12/15/2003 12:29 AM, D. Stussy wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Dave wrote:
>
>>I too am experiencing problems with a D-Link DWL650+. Is there a way to
>>flash it?
>
>
> To flash what?
>
> The 520's and 650's (including the "plus" models) don't have flashable eeproms,
> but need to load their firmware from the computer they're interfaced to. This
> happens during driver initialization. Upgrading your "airplus.bin" and
> radio*.bin" files that are in "\windows\system" (for windows) is all that is
> really needed.
>
> If you want more details on this, see the Linux project for it at
> http://acx100.sourceforge.net and the hacks that were needed to make these cards
> work under that OS.

Then I must have a bad card :-(

And now something completly different:

> If you want more details on this, see the Linux project

Bullshit!! OpenSource driver? Really Great Idea, but let us know, that
even now - it's still messy. Maybe my doings were not-so-fine (when i was
trying to woke-up DWL-520+ driver), but... I don't think so...

I am really disapointed. All my hope went to that project, but it has
failed.

Well. Again. what's the big problem with ACX100 cards?
Maybe U will help me?
(a few days ago I've described my trouble with an 8180L chipset-based card -
ofcourse without sense-reaction).

First of all, I've installed my new DWL-520+ card inside my linux box.
I've made my instalation-steps (ACX100 opensource driver, downloaded from
http://acx100.sourceforge.net/ )
after insmod src/acx100_pci.o firmware_dir=firmware_path ... kernel was
still fine! I could even try some "iwconfig wlan0" settings

//Text insertion
(i.e:
#iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"osanet" Nickname:"acx100 v0.2.0pre6"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Channel:13 Cell: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate=11Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm
Retry min limit:5
Encryption keyff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
)
//End of text insertion

And??... Well. After "ifconfig wlan0 ip_number up" system crashes, and
that's the story.

SO HELP ME IF U CAN, MY GOODMAN. ANSWER THE QUESTION, OR ENYBODY - HELP.
MAYBE I'M SO CLOSE TO FINISHiT?


> http://acx100.sourceforge.net and the hacks that were needed to make these
cards
> work under that OS.