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Test drive: D-Link DWL-922 Wireless G Network Starter Kit (NewsForge)
Glenn Mullikin hacks
on a D-Link DWL-922 Wireless G Network Starter Kit. "D-Link
doesn't advertise Linux support for the kit, but I decided to give it a
whirl anyway to see how well it fared. The kit comes with D-Link's DI-524
Wireless G router, which has all the features you would expect a router to
have, including plenty of security options, and the DWL-G122 USB 2.0
wireless adapter, which you can use at Wi-Fi hotspots or on your
LAN."
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Test drive: D-Link DWL-922 Wireless G Network Starter Kit (NewsForge) Posted Feb 7, 2006 13:48 UTC (Tue) by busterb (subscriber, #560) [Link] The short story is: neither the router nor the USB wireless adapter worksproperly with Linux; you should probably get something else.
Test drive: D-Link DWL-922 Wireless G Network Starter Kit (NewsForge) Posted Feb 7, 2006 14:43 UTC (Tue) by job (guest, #670) [Link] ... which is probably a good idea anyway. I've seen to much of the low cost DLink gear out there, and I've never had a brand cause so much trouble. I had a managed 24p switch hang when a client sent too large ethernet frames (also caused by a broken DLink consumer router by the way). Just go with Linksys or whatever the other low price brands are called instead, it's probably a good idea in more than one way.
Test drive: D-Link DWL-922 Wireless G Network Starter Kit (NewsForge) Posted Feb 7, 2006 16:36 UTC (Tue) by mainman71 (guest, #35766) [Link] I've had problems with D-Link as well; I RMA'd one device and received one which was DOA and RMA'd again. Then I got a package with a broken power adapter but since I had my original adapter I finally had a working solution.
On the other hand, I used one setup where a Linux to Linux file transfer totally saturated a Linksys NAT-router so that all other ports quit working...
Test drive: D-Link DWL-922 Wireless G Network Starter Kit (NewsForge) Posted Feb 7, 2006 17:09 UTC (Tue) by mainman71 (guest, #35766) [Link] I talked to the guy who had this linksys setup and it seems maybe the glitch was somewhere else than the linksys box (ADSL box or ISP, solution was never found).
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