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[bspvette86]

Lycan,
1.40b15 Driver installed.  Will let you know of any issues...

Are there any release notes available???

Regards,
bspvette

[davevt31]

I have been using the ones avaialble form Microsoft Update a few months back.
The file version is listed as 7.4.2.105 with a date of 4/1/2008

The beta drivers look like they are an older version(7.4.2.75 1/17/2008).

[bspvette86]

I noticed the same thing about the MS drivers.  It took a bit of work to get windows to play nice and install this older "update".

Cheers!
bspvette


PS:  and of course MS update wants to update it again....   

[bspvette86]

Lycan,
Since updaing to this beta driver, I am having network disconnects where the NIC thinks it is still associated with the wireless router, but the TCP stack becomes inoperative.  Connection still shows 300, great signal, etc, but there is no connection no matter what IP you try to ping.  (local net or Internet)  I updated my wife's system last weekend, and now she is having the same issue.  The DIR-655 router log shows nothing.

If I remove and re-insert the card, the card re-associates with the router and everything is fine.  The router log only shows an association message:
INFO] Wed Jun 18 02:28:15 2008 Wireless system with MAC address 001B11503908 associated

If I stop the card via windows "safely remove hardware", I get a Deauthentication message, association message, and a DHCP lease message:
[WARN] Tue Jun 17 22:28:32 2008 A network computer (scarlet) was assigned the IP address of 192.168.1.199.
[INFO] Tue Jun 17 22:28:27 2008 Wireless system with MAC address 001B11503908 associated
[INFO] Tue Jun 17 22:28:01 2008 Wireless system with MAC address 001B11503908 disconnected for reason: Received Deauthentication.


Regards
bspvette

[bspvette86]

Lycan,
I rolled the drivers back and the TCP/IP stack no longer hangs.   

Regards,
bspvette

[bspvette86]

D-link,
Thanks so much for acknowledging my results.  Otherwise I would have felt like I completely my wasted my time....   

[pizzaiolo]

I've downloaded and installed Ateros 7.6.0.200 drivers and they sped up my DWA-652 connection and improved stability significantly over what D-Link has, even the 140 beta (7.4.2.75).  Apparently D-Link prefers to stay years behind in their drivers.

Google atheros athw.sys and get it from laptopvideo2go (http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=14858&pid=75167&mode=threaded&start=).  Go into Properties/Configure/Driver/Update Driver for your card and manually "Install from a specific location"...click "Search for the best driver in these locations" and "Include this location in the search" and browse to the folder where you put the downloaded driver.  It'll include DWA-652 (it listed twice for me)...select that and do the install.

Restart your PC and you're in business!  While you're at it bookmark the download page since they maintain it as current with Atheros releases.

Even though the DIR-655 is hopelessly flawed and is being returned, I'm keeping the DWA-652 for now due to the native Atheros driver.

[tstewart@socal.rr.com]

Any one have success with XP SP3 and the 1.40b19 driver? I had to Rev to the 1.30 drivers.

Has any one tried the the Atheos V7,6.0.239 drivers?

[mv620]

I am using the ...239 drivers. They seem to be a big improvement over the drivers I had previously (I think they were the ones on the install CD, or maybe from Windows update) -- I was able to use bittorrent with the new drivers (previously any heavy network use would be a recipe for instant disconnect).