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Date:	Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:16:04 PDT7
From:	J R FOX <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Device i.d. for USB wireless Nic

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Hi Steven,

In the parking lot, after the meeting, you said it was
all pointless speculation until I connected the
device. O.K., I have since done so.

The eCS USB Resource Mgr. sees the following:

Vendor: D-Link Corp. Rev. 2.03
Product: ID0x3701 Langlds: 1033

This may be pretty generic, and not very useful. I
seem to recall seeing something quite similar for
various other USB devices whose presence was detected,
but which eCS has no present ability to use.

Not too surprisingly, neither PCI nor (apparently) any
of its counterparts can help much here either. All of
them seem to be dependent on the file PCIDEVS.TXT, for
identification purposes. While this file does get
updated regularly, in regard to certain hardware items
it never seems to have a comprehensive enough
coverage, or to be familiar with the more recent
models on the market.

I connected the device under Windoze, where their
equivalent of Hardware Mgr. reported it thusly:

D-Link Airplus G DWL-G120 wireless USB adaptor.

(Hey, I could have told you as much from the box !)
The Config. utility from the cd informs that it has
"Prism wireless Lan", listing version #s for the f/w,
drivers, and the config. util. itself. That would
seem to fit in with what D-Link told me, as to the
Prism "Frisbee" chipset.

Does that leave us knowing any more than before ?

Neither the power nor the other led has come on, so
far. It may be that this requires the presence of a
wireless router box. There is none here, but there
will be at another location I expect to visit in a few
days. It occurs to me that even if I had this working
under Windoze, I have no idea as to how to configure
it from a security standpoint. Hopefully that subject
is covered on the cd, because the printed setup guide
is quite skimpy.

Jordan

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