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Re: Best driver yet for DWL-G650+ and DWL-G520+ This is just fantastic - it's solved my BIG problems on a Sony Laptop with a DWL-G650+ connecting to a DI614+ (RevB) - many thanks for this tip! | |
| Thank to BTest for finding solution and sharing it with the world! USR Driver works rock solid with the D-Link DWL-G520+ installed to the following system: Windows 2000Pro, AMD Athlon 800 MHz, Asus A7V m/b, Asus NVIDIA GForce-4 AGP8, Creative Sound Live card, ALI USB 2.0 PCI conroller. Native D-Link drivers was not giving a stable connection for this system. I spent 4 sleepless days playing with Windows reinstallations and driver options, I tried to remove other PCI cards, change connection speed, or/and move PC closer to the Wireless Router. All of this was in vain with DLink drivers. I tried 1.0, 2.02, and 2.04 versions. Despite all of the efforts, the connection was continuing to drop every few minutes.
Only after installing US Robotics driver for USR5410 802.11g Wireless Turbo PC Card instead of native D-Link's ones, I have got stable connection.
Thank to this forum and, again, to BTest!
Shame on D-Link, which products require third party drivers to work!
It was interesting that absolutely the same card installed in another slightly older system (AMD Athlon 700 MHz, EPOX 7KXA m/b integrated sound, Asus NVIDIA GForce-2 AGP4) works fine with original D-Link driver from CD. It is beyond my competence, but I may presume that D-Link drivers I tried have some collisions with some functions of newer motherboards, such as of ASUS A7V series, whereas US Robotics driver knows how to avoid those collisions. | |
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Can't get this to work just right.
I've been running fine with the Atheros client, and a driver version of 3.0.0.44, signed in 2003! Very frustrating because I couldn't make Windows 2000 update the driver. It simply wouldn't.
So this thread really encouraged me there was a solution to some of the dropping I had been experiencing lately, out of the blue.
I installed the USR 6.0beta15 driver, which if I remember correctly also put the software on the desktop. Restarted.
Went to hardware manager, and now I'm seeing two Wireless cards - D-Link and USR 802.11g Wireless Turbo Adapter - Odyssey Network Services Miniport.
I tried updating the driver on the D-Link, pointing it to the USR drivers, it would install fine. But upon restart, the device would be stuck in troubleshooting because the driver was incorrect.
I reinstalled the D-Link drivers on the D-Link device, restarted. Tried to access a webpage, works. Okay, I'm happy with this.
Disabled the "USR device" because I figured it didn't need to be there -- suddenly my internet drops. Interesting...
Re-enabled it,and internet works.
Am I running on the USR 'device' now? If so, the USR utility still doesn't work. It puts a little icon down in the system tray that is red and when you put your mouse cursor over it, it says "USR WLAN - No Card Found".
Help? | | |
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| I suspect there is some confusion here, and it's not helped by D-Link's model numbering.
The DWL-G520 and DWL-G650 are based on the Atheros wireless chipset, and you can use the D-Link or Atheros drivers.
The DWL-520+ and DWL-650+ are based on a Texas Instruments (TI) wireless chipset (ACX100), and you can use the D-Link or USR drivers.
The DWL-G520+ and DWL-G650+ are based on a different TI wireless chipset (TNETW1130), and you can use the D-Link or USR drivers.
For the TI-based products there are different drivers for the two chipsets, and you need to identify the equivalent USR model. Browse the thread and you'll soon find reference to it, but it's fairly clear on the USR site.
Hope this helps | |
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my G650+ driver ver. 6.0.0.18 works fine with 624+ rev. A firmware ver. 1.21. The connection between my Motion M 1400 Tablet PC and the 624+ remain at 54 Mbps and is very Stable over hours. I have tried the U.S. Robotics driver as well but removed it because i was not able to use XP to administrate the networkneither for the connection over G650+ nor for the built in Intel Wirless board! | |
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I am testing the latest version 6 driver for my G520+ card. Seems fine to me. But it seem to have a problem with the microsoft wireless zero config utility. it says it doesn't support WPA but it is running fine with the us robotics utility.
Before I tried this driver, I have regular disconnection every 1hr. Will try this driver and see how.
Thanks for everyone effort | |
 funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-11
Yarmouth Port, MA
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1 edit | reply to k3vb0t
How to recover from a bad hardware install said by k3vb0t:
Can't get this to work just right.
I've been running fine with the Atheros client, and a driver version of 3.0.0.44, signed in 2003! Very frustrating because I couldn't make Windows 2000 update the driver. It simply wouldn't.
So this thread really encouraged me there was a solution to some of the dropping I had been experiencing lately, out of the blue.
I installed the USR 6.0beta15 driver, which if I remember correctly also put the software on the desktop. Restarted.
Went to hardware manager, and now I'm seeing two Wireless cards - D-Link and USR 802.11g Wireless Turbo Adapter - Odyssey Network Services Miniport.
I tried updating the driver on the D-Link, pointing it to the USR drivers, it would install fine. But upon restart, the device would be stuck in troubleshooting because the driver was incorrect.
I reinstalled the D-Link drivers on the D-Link device, restarted. Tried to access a webpage, works. Okay, I'm happy with this.
Disabled the "USR device" because I figured it didn't need to be there -- suddenly my internet drops. Interesting...
Re-enabled it,and internet works.
Am I running on the USR 'device' now? If so, the USR utility still doesn't work. It puts a little icon down in the system tray that is red and when you put your mouse cursor over it, it says "USR WLAN - No Card Found".
Help?
Because you're 'comcast.ne', I suspect that rperkin  is right about your situation. The DI-650+ and the DI-520+ (22 Mbps 802.11b cards) have not been marketed here for a while. Chances are you have the DWL-G520 or the G650.
But you should not have two items in Device Manager! This is very strange.
Getting the Odessey client is not unusual, and it is harmless. You can uninstall it from Windows by clicking on it in any network connection and then clicking Uninstall. Or, you can just 'uncheck it.' Doing any of these will not fix a broken system. These are called Supplicants and they provide wireless 802.1x and WPA-PSK support for non-XP systems. Sadly, it installs even on OS's that don't need it -- but it seems this 'feature' is not unique to D-Link.
To clean up this mess:
Download the driver you want to install and put it on your hard drive somewhere.
Set a restore point in Start, Program, Accessories, System Tools, System Restore. This provides a way back if things get hosed up (unlikely).
Once you do the next step, you may lose wireless network connectivity for a while. Be prepared. Print this message or copy it to a text file on your Desktop because you're going to reboot in the middle of this.
Go into Control Panel - Add / Remove programs and remove all of the D-Link and USR-related utilities, drivers, and whatever else you can find that looks related. You may see entries from ANIO, Odessey, Aegis, Funk -- all of those can go.
If, as you do all of this stuff, Windows automatically starts the "New Hardware Wizard" due to some system event or a forced reboot, press "Cancel" on it. And if an uninstall program wants a reboot, please reboot.
Your old installation files go into c:\windows\inf but they are not named in an obvious manner. Best to sort this directory by "Creation Date" and "Modified Date" and then look at the *.inf files with Notepad. Sorting the directories these ways gives you the best chance that the driver files you want are at or near the top of this long list.
The files in this directory are used by Windows to subsequently reinstall your devices.
Move the *.inf files and the files that share the same "firstname.*" to the Recycle Bin (for example, if blah123 mentions one of your wireless drivers, move everything named blah123.*). Remember, anything you move to Recycle Bin can be later restored from Recycle Bin. This is a second way out if things get hosed up.
Then, go into Device Manager and, one at a time, select any remaining network devices or "Unknown Devices" that you are trying to clean up, right click, and choose Remove / Uninstall from the right-click menu. Because you removed files from Add/Remove program, don't be surprised if you find no adapters here.
One you get to this point, go ahead and reboot. After you log back in (under the same account you've been using), Windows will detect New Hardware, but now it cannot automatically install it. Please click Cancel.
Using the files you downloaded at the beginning of these instructions, install your network drivers. If you want to install only the drivers, and the setup program supports that decision, click "Custom" when the install choices (Typical, Compact, Custom) come up. From there, you should be able to choose just the driver. Many driver setups do not give this option.
At the end of setup, you often are left with a working network card and no more steps are necessary. However, it might ask for one more reboot (do it). If it didn't ask and your network card is not working, go ahead and reboot anyway. This time, when the New Hardware Wizard comes up, click "Next" and have it look for the files in places you specify (as you ran setup or unpacked a zip file, it might have copied the files. Do not ask it to look at Windows Update. At the end of that, one more reboot might be needed -- usually not.
Now, if the network card still isn't working, it's probably either bad hardware or the wrong driver. If it's the wrong driver, you can do both restore the original files from Recycle Bin, go back into Device Manager and Remove/Uninstall the drivers, and then reboot (I would do that first). If still no joy, you can use System Restore to go back to your restore point. Of course, if your network install was bad to begin with, it just returns you to the bad install -- but it does undo all of the above.
Hope this helps!
Edit: Clarifications, and changed last paragraph
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Robb Topolski  http://www.funchords.com/  Hillsboro, Oregon USA
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security | |
| reply to BTest
Re: Best driver yet for DWL-G650+ and DWL-G520+ Woah! I'm glad I found this thread.
I've got DWL-G650+ with Linksys WRT54G router at home. Lately, I noticed frequent connection resets. However, I thought it was because I messed up my router (for a few days I used a 12 volt AC power adapter with it instead of 12 volt DC like I should have - Doh!). I'm now back to 12v DC, but the router keeps resetting every so often, so I'm guessing it's phucked.
But would it be worth a try to install that USR driver for my card and see if it helps?
Also, if I was to buy a new wireless router (I'm in the US now), what are my options to get speeds higher than 54 Mbps with this D-link card? USR 8054? Any others?
Thanks for the help.
Pete | |
funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-11
Yarmouth Port, MA
kudos:5 | reply to sliderwkw6
Regular disconnections every hour using WPA-PSK said by sliderwkw6:Before I tried this driver, I have regular disconnection every 1hr. Will try this driver and see how. If you get into this situation again, please follow these steps:
WPA-PSK Communications Lockout or DHCP Failure Tip
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Robb Topolski http://www.funchords.com/ Hillsboro, Oregon USA
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security | |
funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-11
Yarmouth Port, MA
kudos:5 | reply to Pete7874
Non-fatal Router firmware or settings corruption. said by Pete7874:
I've got DWL-G650+ with Linksys WRT54G router at home. Lately, I noticed frequent connection resets. However, I thought it was because I messed up my router (for a few days I used a 12 volt AC power adapter with it instead of 12 volt DC like I should have - Doh!). I'm now back to 12v DC, but the router keeps resetting every so often, so I'm guessing it's phucked. If you really mucked it up, it wouldn't work hardly at all.
Chances are that it is either perfectly fine or that your individual settings are only mildly corrupted. One thing you can try is restoring to factory settings using the normal configuration menus, then power-cycling the router, and reconfiguring it by hand (don't restore an old saved profile).
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Robb Topolski http://www.funchords.com/ Hillsboro, Oregon USA
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security | |
| As opposed to doing a hard reset?
On another note, has anyone compared the D-Link 2.04 driver with the USR 6.15b driver in terms of stability and speeds? Basically, I was wondering if it's worth switching from D-Link to USR driver at this point. Most previous comments refer to the older buggy D-Link driver.
Thanks! | |
 OreoleOWanna Settle This Outside??
join:2004-05-22
Feasterville Trevose, PA | Re: Non-fatal Router firmware or settings corrupti what about something for the 510 ? | |
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