[lwlan-user] dlink dwl-650: wlan-ng or not?

[Charles Johnson]

Antti wrote:

>Hi!
>
>This card worked fine with rh 8.0 and wlan-ng rpm packages, but I was'nt
>able to edit and change the configuration for this card since the card
>was titled wlan0 instead of eth1 and I suppose redhat's network conf
>doesn't see wlan* devices????
>
>Now I have upgraded rh 8.0 to 9.0. The card was detected and it uses
>orinoco_cs instead of prism_cs. All works fine but I get these lines in
>messages:
> 
>eth1: error -110 reading Rx descriptor. Frame dropped.
>eth1: Error -110 writing packet header to BAP
>eth1: Error -110 writing Tx descriptor to BAP
>
>..and the net goes down. But after unplugging the card it works fine a
>little while.
>
>So should I put the rpms in and use the great prism_cs driver or do I
>fix something in my current set up? What options do I got? Can I make
>the prism driver to work with 'eth1' instead of 'wlan0'? 
>
>I want to change the wlan configurations easily. I suppose this could be
>done with cardctl?!?
>
> 
>  
>
AFAIK, there is no GUI editor for wlan under RH --at least none I could 
find. But it is easy to change configuration by editing a couple of 
files. You might consider posting to the RH9 list (shrike) and see if 
someone could help with the orinoco driver issue. Otherwise, I'd be very 
tempted to go to the wlan-ng driver and learn to modify the behavior of 
th card by editing the configuration files. There are several people who 
post to this list who could help, I bet.

Cheers--
Charles