Dlink DWL-G650 driver for Fedora 6

Roger Sinel rsinel at bredband.net
Tue Jan 30 19:08:13 UTC 2007


Hi,

Orinoco Gold PC24E- H-ET PCMCIA
It's a bit of and older card but it worked fine for me with Fedora Core
3, so FC6 shouldn't be a problem.

Otherwisw this site lists loads of Wireless LAN card tested for Linux.

http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_hostif.php?hostif=PCMCIA

Regards
Roger


On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 21:56 -0800, Bobby Meeker wrote:
> Hi.    
> 
> I just installed Fedora 6 on my IBM thinkpad 600x.   I'm a computer
> engineer by trade and have often worked in Unix development
> environments, but this is my first foray into the realm of Linux.  
> 
> I have a dlink DWL-650 (revB) PCMCIA wireless card which I want to use
> to connect to the internet.   My labtop is pretty useless to me if I
> cant get online.   
> 
> Trouble is I can not seem to be able to find a linux driver for this
> card.   I queried DLINK and got forwarded to the madwifi.org site.
> But their drivers only seem to work with a Atheros chipset, which I do
> not have.   I tried anyways and sure enough the make failed.   
> 
> Does anybody have any suggestions on how I might be able to make my
> DWL-650 card work with Linux?    Does anybody know of PCMCIA wireless
> cards that come with linux drivers/support?
> 
> Thanks
> bobby
> 
> 
> 
> 
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