DWL-650 rev P - no progress with CVS hostap..

Joshua Kwan joshk at triplehelix.org
Sat Feb 28 22:27:36 EST 2004


On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 10:18:00PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > But the card does work flawlessly in Windows. Could I somehow flash it
> > there with something special to make it usable in Linux?
> 
> You cannot flash it because the flash is very short - it can only hold the
> PDA and the CIS.
> 
> If the card works in Windows on the same machine, it's very encouraging
> because it shows that the problem is in hardware, not in software.

Did you mean software, not hardware? That's quite reassuring...

> The workaround it to use a different PCMCIA bridge, such as plx9052 based
> one (such as Linksys WDT11), which worked on that "bad" machine where TI
> and Ricoh bridges didn't work.

Don't think I have the balls to excise the PCMCIA bridge from my laptop
and put in a new one ;)

PS. Email sucks, interested in joining me at Freenode/#hostap?

-- 
Joshua Kwan
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