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Karnaugh

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Has anyone had alot of success getting these (ACX100) working in Linux?

I've got it working but it seems really flimsy alot of the time, get alot of log errors about failed TX and radio drift. Granted its on a rather long pigtail, the connection was not much better directly to the antenna (which is a patch).

I'm wondering if it will run better on a 2.6.8 Kernel than the 2.4.27 that its currently on (Debian Sid)

My general oppinion of the card is rather low, I must say. I'm starting to think the D in DLink stands for "Don't"
 
Karnaugh said:
Has anyone had alot of success getting these (ACX100) working in Linux?

I've got it working but it seems really flimsy alot of the time, get alot of log errors about failed TX and radio drift. Granted its on a rather long pigtail, the connection was not much better directly to the antenna (which is a patch).

I'm wondering if it will run better on a 2.6.8 Kernel than the 2.4.27 that its currently on (Debian Sid)

My general oppinion of the card is rather low, I must say. I'm starting to think the D in DLink stands for "Don't"
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i have had the card running in Suse. the dlink520plus (acx100/111) is not a very nice card. also a lot of kernel errors and max power can be pushed to 15db or 50mw. throw the card away!
 
The dlink card's are based on a Texas Instruments chipset. They're orrible. Orrible sensitivity, and orrible support. TI still refuses to release ANY specs which doesn't make things easier in terms of improving driver support.

Stay clear.
 
K, dont waste your time with D-Link. Not great for much.
 
I have a DLINK G510 wireless card in one of my home PC's and it performs flawless.

But as Rodent said it all depends on the chipset used and fortunately mine is a Rev B which is an Atheros.
 
Well it held a connection, averaging 1% packet loss, for about 4 hours. And then it died... and the chip shut down... and I dont know why. I havn't bothered rebooting the machine, because I'll more likely halt it and give the card back.

Why do people make crap hardware? In what world can you possibly get away with even trying to sell a networking device that doesn't run on Linux or FreeBSD?

Don't-Link, explain yourselves please.
 
Karnaugh - I take it, I'm expecting that card back very soon. :/

see if you can think of what would be the best solution to connect to saol.com
 
Karnaugh maybe we can find a card based on the atheros chipset for you, I have the Dlink G520 and that works fine with the madwifi drivers.
 
When looking at brand-name cards, google a bit to check that it uses the Atheros Chipset. As tibby pointed out, the 510 rev.b's use an Atheros chipset. Pretty much any a/b/g (tri) adapter will be using the Atheros chipset.

Alternatively, buy a Made-In-Eastern-SweatShop-Of-Your-Choice (tm) card that's Atheros based. They're all the same, and based off the Atheros reference designs.
 
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