Jacek Pliszka's page about TI ACX100 PCI cards

On this page I collect info about Linux drivers for TI ACX100-based 802.11b PCI cards. Cards that are of this type are Trendware/Trendnet TEW-303PI, D-link DWL-520+ and a few other. These are cheapest 44 mbps PCI cards with good antenna connector.

It looks like there is some sourceforge project to get ACX100 cards working. The driver works but is still experimental.

You may also try the binary driver as others did. However be carefull as driver is very buggy (closed source so we can't help) and there are reports of memory corruption. This is list of links I compiled (let me know if you know other good sources) :

  1. Links DWL-520+ HOWTO http://www.hack.gr/users/panxer/wireless/
  2. DWL-650+ driver -basically same chipset http://www.zahner2000.de/linux.htm
  3. a newer version of one of the above that Ivor Hewitt(thanks for info Ivor!) got from Globalsuntech
  4. http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2003-January/001130.html
  5. https://www.jcu.edu.au/pipermail2/tsv-wireless/2003-January/000157.html
  6. http://geelong.wireless.org.au/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=MostPopular
  7. http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/DlinkDwl650Plus
  8. In Polish: http://www.cyberbajt.pl/wiedza/raport3.shtml
Jacek Pliszka
Last modified: Fri Nov 21 23:09:29 CET 2003