David Young wrote:

>On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 12:50:49AM -0500, Michael Hertrick wrote:
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>>   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.
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>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.
>

mobo from 2002, 1GHz, AGP, SiS 735 chip, AMI BIOS.

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>>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.
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>Late-model DWL-520s use the Realtek chipset.
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Ok then, how about this... according to the box, the model is DWL-520 
<B>.  D-Link has different drivers, at least for Windows, for each 
card.  After all kinds of digging around the Internet, I'm thinking the 
computer's fine... just a tweak in the driver is needed.


Thanks,
Mike.