Subject: Z50 Wireless: D-Link DWL-650 Card Success!
To: None <port-hpcmips@netbsd.org>
From: billy ball <bball@tux.org>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 08/26/2001 15:56:25
fyi:
- continuing my escapades with the Z50 and NetBSD 1.5.1... went over to
a friend's house this weekend... he's running a wireless network
served up by a static-IP Telocity DSL setup, with a feed to a
NetGear access point...
- he uses a variety of wireless NICs, including D-Link's DWL-650
(which IIRC, is a Prism2-based card?)...
- anyway, i was puttering on the Z50 and decided to try the D-Link
PC card... so i yanked the card out of his laptop, inserted it
into the Z50, and:
the card was recognized as wi0... i then did a:
# ifconfig wi0 192.168.123.89 up
# route add default 192.168.123.200
- Bingo! the connection was made, and i was browsing, newsreading and
doing email wirelessly! the first line assigned the IP address, while
the second line pointed to the NetGear AP... i already had
/etc/resolv.conf filled out with my ISP's nameserver entries ...
very nice, folks!
regards,
billy ball