On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 15:07:19 +0000, Lee J. Moore wrote:

>Dean Edwards wrote:
>//
>> I have the dlink dwl650+ (claims 22mbps) that uses the TI chipset. Not so
>> long ago there was only a mysterious binary driver, but this worked for
>> me. There is now an open sourse project with a working driver and under
>> active
>> development http://acx100.sourceforge.net/. If you want all the various
>> wireless networking tools to work (airsnort etc), then you best get an
>> orinoco type card.
>
>Still not as straightfoward as I'd hoped. Some claiming that a particular
>model of Orinoco silver (the only one available at my supplier
>incidentally) is not supported.

I may have misled you there ;-) IIRC the orinocos don't need the acx100
driver, rather the more common and better supported wlan driver.
It is tricky with wireless under linux. As you found, the manufacturers
have a habit of switching chipsets without changing the model number. I
still think the best bet is to look for (older?) orinoco cards, perhaps on
ebay. The silver and gold are basicly the same AIUI but with different
levels of WEP.
All depends on how desperate you are for the higher speeds offered by the
newer cards.