Dlink DWL-520E howto

I bought 2 of these cards refurbished for short money. ($50 shipped for 2). Probably sent back to D-link by some windows user that couldn't get his mouse clicks in the right sequence and pattern. ;)

This card works just fine under Linux but not with the linux-wlan-ng drivers.

You actually need to upload the firmware on boot everytime and unload the modules before halt/reboot or the card can (will?) lock. You need the hostap driver.

There is a great howto from Andrew Barr here.

You don't need the following link to get the dwl-520E working but it is relevant to linux wireless and the hostap driver.

Linux wireless

*Note use dhclient instead of dhcpcd. apt-get install dhcp3-client
*Note the hostap driver also works with the dwl-650.