[Wirelessdriver-support] Cards supported?

[Wolfgang K. <wol...@ma...>]

Hi there,
I have a D-Link/NetEasy DRC650 WirelessLAN and a Belkin F5D6020g WLAN 
card. The first should be the same as the DWL 650, the latter I don't 
know.

The D-Link card showed up on the desktop of a friend's G3 PowerBook 
immediately after insertion. So did the Belkin card. Couldn't test the 
cards as there was no access point available, though.

I have also tried to run them in a desktop PC running Windows ME. The 
PC recognizes the PCI-adapter card with the TI1410 chip, but not the 
wireless cards. Same thing happened with a PCI adapter card with a 
Ricoh controller.

I then connected a Belkin WLAN USB Adapter to the PC's USB port and 
this works just fine, except for encryption.

Both the Belkin and the D-Link card are WEP128 compliant.
Could they be used to replace the internal Lucent Orinoco Silver card 
(WEP64) of the original AirPortBaseStation? There was a how-to in c't 
24/2001 computer magazine, replacing the silver card with a gold one.
Regards
Wolfgang