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Linux + DWL-120+ = failure
Posted by fsateler on Mon 11 Sep 2006 at 05:05
We had a bit of a reordering at home, and I ended up far away from my router, so I have to (at least for now) connect wirelessly to it. The problem is that my wireless card is an USB DLink DWL-120+, which happens to not work on my computer. After installing the Windows driver and getting internet access, I started googling around, and found that there is a driver for it, the acx100 driver. After downloading all necesary stuff, compiling and installing the drivers, messing with the necessary firmware, all of this offline (I had to reboot to Windows several times to download extra stuff), I was able to configure the wlan0 interface.
However, I haven't been able to connect reliably to my router. Most of the time it can't get an IP address from the DHCP server, and when it does, it manages to bring down the router, thus bringing the complete LAN down. I am trying to work this out, but it is very cumbersome, since I don't have internet to google around for information, or post on the user forums for the driver (this is very irritating, since I need to post driver output for the post to be useful, and I can't really copy it by hand).
My plan is to place a wire across my place to forget about wireless networking. The other option is to place a temporary cable so I can debug the wireless driver without having to reboot. The first option seems like less work, but I guess the second option is the better in the long run.
However, I haven't been able to connect reliably to my router. Most of the time it can't get an IP address from the DHCP server, and when it does, it manages to bring down the router, thus bringing the complete LAN down. I am trying to work this out, but it is very cumbersome, since I don't have internet to google around for information, or post on the user forums for the driver (this is very irritating, since I need to post driver output for the post to be useful, and I can't really copy it by hand).
My plan is to place a wire across my place to forget about wireless networking. The other option is to place a temporary cable so I can debug the wireless driver without having to reboot. The first option seems like less work, but I guess the second option is the better in the long run.
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Afraid last time I tried this driver, I could get the box to spy the other wireless card, but it was very erratic. I eventually figured out that I could get my two wireless cards to talk if I brought them up in a particular order, which suggested some sort of protocol implementation issue with the driver, in the end I got broadband, and so instead of using the box with the DWL in as a wireless gateway, I just bought a broadband router with 802.11g built in, and ripped the DWL out.
Things may have moved on, I did need recent kernels, recent firmware, etc when I tried.
Things may have moved on, I did need recent kernels, recent firmware, etc when I tried.
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Posted by Anonymous (84.74.xx.xx) on Fri 15 Sep 2006 at 22:45
i once had a dwl-120+, last time i tried it (~2 years ago), there was only ad-hoc support...it was (is still? i don't know) the only usb-wireless-device with a ti-chipset, therefore was lowest priority to get it to work since they still fought with wep support back then...
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