[MLB-WIRELESS] linux ap's

[Dennis Biscontin]

Just on the D-LINK 520 availability, some shops still stock em, but I do
believe the 520+ (TI acx100 chipset, not Prism) has superseded it. You'll
find that the product page for the 520 on most D-LINK sites is no longer :(


-----Original Message-----
From: Duncan Robertson [mailto:duncan at zog.net.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, 25 June 2003 7:37 PM
To: melbwireless at wireless.org.au


I set up some APs using the DWL-520 (and a belkin pcmcia card with the prism
chip set) recently and they work well I have found, except:

drivers are quite verbose, still lots of debug output. this can be turned
off by fiddling with syslog/dmesg, or just editing the driver code.

and the wep in kernel means they can need a fast box for high speed transfer
and/or CPU intensive tasks on the AP can slow down xfers if wep is enabled.
However there may be a way to turn on using the WEP built into the PRISM
card? Anyone know how this can be done? 
 (example - exported X sessions thru the AP get quite slow if someone gzips
a large backup file on the AP)

dwl-520 availability: When we were looking at these for our pilot project
one supplier told us DLINK were not making them anymore. But then when
asking DLINK about this they said this was not the case, could have been
just the supplier trying to push us towards whatever was in stock. This was
6+ months ago and it could have all changed by then however.

stability: seems to be quite stable, but there has been the odd unexplained
crash that I think is the hostap driver. uptime in the order of 1 - 2 months
rather than the usual linux style "forever or until power outage".


> I have been using HostAP on a DWL520 for the last 18 months or so.  It 
> has a massive amount of functionality, most of which is described in 
> the readme at http://hostap.epitest.fi .  I have found it supremely 
> stable with the dlink card.
> 



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