D-Link DWL-G520 PCI WLAN NIC

seamus

Don't buy this card

After much issues with my machine, I traced it back to this card. Machine was freezing when large quantities of data were being moved around (using the CD drives, copying CD images around) and it's generally causing the machine to lag and jump.

Did a google, and found plenty of people with similar issues, all on different machines, different motherboards, different OSs. Some people found fixes, most didn't. It seems to be a problem with IRQ settings but the BIOS on my motherboard (Abit KD7-A) isn't overly friendly, and the manual is no help. From what I gather, the card needs to be assigned a dedicated IRQ (i.e. not a shared one) from the BIOS, and not PnP from Windows. :rolleyes: In this day and age, that's ridiculous. Anyway, my machine doesn't seem to have an option to assign fixed IRQs, so I'm gonna have to go buy a new card.

It gets frustrating. I've to disable the card to play games, burn CDs, copy large files, etc. Sometimes it just freezes randomly.

D-Link seem to refuse to acknowledge the issue.

daveirl

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LeperKing

I'm having problems with this as well..

Card H/D Ver A2 F/W 2.23

Mobo: MSI 6340 (K7TM Pro) with athlon 900.

Daveirl, what exactly is your system spec?

LK