need help to get DWL650 Ver P (TI1510) to work on Fedora core 3 on Thinkpad R50e

[Jar]

Aseem Sood wrote:
> cardctl ident
> Socket 0:
> product info: "D-Link", "DWL-650 Wireless PC Card
> RevP", "ISL37101P-10", "A3"
> manfid: 0x000b, 0x7110
> function: 6 (network)

Apparently you have no pcmcia problem at all.

The card "D-Link DWL-650 Rev. P1" is likely Prism based 802.11b card. 
You need to download/compile/install the hostap_cs driver (from 
http://hostap.epitest.fi/) for that card.

Unfortunately this card seems to be without firmware in a flash chip. 
You will need hostap-utils package and specifically the hostap_fw_load 
script from it.

Hostap_fw_load script loads the RAM versions of the primary and station 
firmwares to the card at start up. You have to find correct firmwares 
fou your card (they can be PM010102.HEX and RF010802.HEX for example or 
not, you have to try yourself). Good Prism2/2.5/3 firmware collection 
is: http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/firmware/

You have to run the script beforehand, before any other wlan related 
configuration. Good place in Fedora can be: 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-wireless script. Put the 
hostap_fw_load command line before any other existing 'iwconfig' stuff.

Unfortunately I have no personal experiences with this kind of card, so 
my instructions can be inaccurate.

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Best Regards, Jar