Mapping Dlink-650 to use HostAP driver

[SuD]

I see knoppix 3.4 still uses Orinoco driver for my D-link DWL-650 (prism2) card. This is not the optimal driver, but hostap or wlanng should be used instead. The reasons are the gain of stability and features (master mode).

To fix this i had to:

  cd /etc/pcmcia
  for i in config*; do cat $i | sed 's/orinoco/hostap/g' > kk ; mv -f kk $i; done
  /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart

That is, toughly replace "orinoco" for "hostap".

Is there a better way of enabling hostap driver? Is this already fixed en later releases?

[ktheking]

I believe the DWL-650 is a ACX-100 based Wifi card.

So already tried this ? :
http://www.houseofcraig.net/acx100_howto.php#app_b

[SuD]

I believe the DWL-650 is a ACX-100 based Wifi card.

By the way, DWL-650+ (mind the '+' sign) is the acx100 based.
I own both cards, for the second card i must download and compile driver apart (thanks for the link anyway )

I was going to suggest also suppor for acx100 driver, but someone has started a thread on that issue already.