dec 31 2001, this document is basicaly useless now. i now suggest that you use the HostApMode prism2 drivers on the server, which will give you the ability to create a real access point, and use orinoco_cs on the client machines (yes it works fine for Prism2Cards as long as they are using infastructure mode. the DebianAp document should work for setting that up.

WARNING: after kernel 2.4.12 these drivers stop functioning. i've also had issues with certain versions of pcmcia-cs. if the latest version of pcmcia-cs is giving you problems, try the next one down from that.

if you for some reason really want ad-hoc (laptop lan gaming on mount ashland?) here is some stuff on how i got the D-Link DWL-650 (pcmcia) and DWL-500 (a pci adapter and a 650) working under DebianLinux, in ad-hoc mode. sure, there's no drivers in the kernel for this, which is a shame... but... they were the cheapest cards on pricewatch at the original time of writing, around july 2001 i think).

stuff to download:

kernel source is also nice ftp://ftp.kernel.org (though i suppose you could get the kernel headers for your distro generic kernel, i don't have that though)

  1. do any kernel stuff you need to (make sure to select wireless lan support) CONFIG_NET_RADIO i belive.
  2. untar the pcmcia-cs stuff
  3. untar the samsung tarbal withing the pcmcia-cs dir, make config, make all, make install.
  4. apt-get install wireless-tools
  5. if you are using the pci card, all refs i make from this point on to "swld11_cs", need to be "swldpc11_cs".
  6. edit /etc/pcmcia/config if these lines are not already there, add them. {{{device "swld11_cs"
    • class "network" module "swld11_cs"

card "D-Link DWL-650 11 Mbps Wireless Adapter"

card "Intersil PRISM2 11 Mbps Wireless Adapter"

}}}

esac}}}

esac}}}

-- ForrestEnglish


Will gives a great demonstration of how to add an external antenna to the D-Link DWL-650 http://kevlar.burdell.org/~will/antenna/

Seattle Wireless has some more pictures that use the same hack described on Will's page.

-- ScottMcClung


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