DWL-520 and hostap

[Bruno Randolf]

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hello! 

On Friday 04 July 2003 00:36, Vicente Paredes wrote:

> I am from ecuador, i am trying to built a wireless communitty network in
> my town. I am getting DWL-520 cards and Red hat 8 to built my AP, please
> send me some information, about antenas speccialy, experiences with this
> card, which version of host ap is better for me, etc.

i have used this card a lot and have had good experiences with it. it is said, 
that this card only works with a PCI 2.2 bus, but for me it also works with a 
PCI 2.1 bus in an old pentium 1 mainboard.

you have to tak care, that you get a version of the DWL-520 which has a prism 
chipset, the newest version of this card (rev. C) has a different chipset.
this is what jun sun said about this a few days ago on this mailinglist:

> Look at the cover of the box.  Rev A and B has a metal boxy cover with
> color prints, while Rev C does not.  Rev C only shows bare chips.

dont buy a DWL-520+ - this card is not supported.

i use hostap-0.0.3 at the moment and it works fine.

concerning antennas, you might want to read 
http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/AntennaInfo or 
http://www.qsl.net/n9zia/index.html for more theoretical stuff. there are 
lots of other webpages concerning this topic, that i dont remember.

bruno
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