Subject: Re: DWL-520
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/26/2003 00:36:55
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 12:50:49AM -0500, Michael Hertrick wrote:
> Stores around here are once again is carrying the plain old
> DWL-520's based on the Prism2.5 chipset, cheap too. So I picked one up
> this evening, to replace my 520+ abomination, and tried using it on
> -current.
Is your computer very old? In half the computers that I have plugged
a DWL-520 into, the green power light will not even come on, no matter
what OS. I had better luck with computers from after 1996 or 1997.
> BTW, I say "late-model" only because for all I know the card was
> recently manufactured and, if so, could differ slightly from the older
> cards.
Late-model DWL-520s use the Realtek chipset.
Dave
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