See a DlinkDwl900Ap+ for more info
Pictures
Rev. A&B: Modified DWL-650+ PCMCIA Card: DlinkDwl650Plus
Rev. C: Mini-PCI Card
Hardware revisions A & B:
http://www.huwico.hu/node/view/172 - disassembling (Hungarian)
http://mobileaccess.de/wlan/index.html?go=dlink_dwl-900applus
Hardware revision C:
http://acinonyx.silverton.gr/dwl900revc/hardware.html - detailed hardware overview with labelled photos of mainboard
Hardware
Hardware revisions A & B:
- FCC ID: KA2DWL900AP-PLUS
- Integrated system for embedded ethernet applications
- Fully 16/32-bit RISC architecture
CPU: RISC based S3C4510B01-QERO: SamSung4510
- Efficient and powerful ARM7TDMI core
- Little/Big-Endian mode supported basically,the internal architecture is big-endian. So, the little-endian mode only support for external memory.
- Cost-effective JTAG-based debug solution
- Boundary scan
Hardware revision C:
- FCC ID: KA2ACX100
- Global Sun OEM PCB Model GL2422AP-1T1-B10 version: T1.2
- CPU: ARM9 Conexant CX82100 Home Networking Processor (HNP) 168 MHz
- Flash: M29W800DB 3 volt Boot Block 512k x 16 (1MB)
- RAM: IC42S16400-7T 8MB SDRAM @ 133MHz
- Wireless: Mini PCI TI ACX100 Global Sun GL2422MP
- JTAG: yes 14 pins
- UART: no
- Antennas: 2 antenna, one is internal J pole.
Hardware Hacks
Hardware revisions A & B:
http://www.ralphfowler.com/links/dwl900.html - PoE without deinjector
Official Firmware
2.62b1 (D-Link Germany)
ftp://ftp.dlink.de/dwl/dwl-900applus/driver_software/DWL-900applus_fw_revB1_2.62b1_ALL_en_011226.zip
- WPA using Hex keys with WPA-PSK
- Antenna selection: left-right-diversity renamed to internal-external-diversity
- Repeater-mode works with WEP
- Site survey finds APs on all channels
2.61 (D-Link USA)
Firmware Hacks
Hardware revisions A, B & C:
http://home.earthlink.net/~mlampie/PowerHackDWL-900+.html - Power hack (around 22dBm)
- Antenna selection remains the same for both RX and TX
- More TX power control settings (0 - 18dbm)
- Power control works on all modes
- Additional channels (12, 13 and 14)
- Better web interface
Software Power Out to 20 dBm
http://camp0s.altervista.org/wardriving/DWL900AP/900ap.htm
Browser driven power_output hack using FireFox DOM Inspector; all the details and result on the page.
Software utilities
ap-utils can be used to manage DWL-900ap+
Resetting DWL 900ap+ with a Perl script
Links
Hardware revision C uses the same CPU as this Actiontec router:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/01/0245257&mode=thread&tid=106&tid=137&tid=185
http://www.clevelandlug.net/modules.php?op=modload...mode=thread&order=0&thold=0



