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I found 3 or 4 of these at a garage sale a few years ago for a few bucks, and I am (surprisingly) just cracking them open now.

On the front, it is marked as D-Link DWL-120 11Mbps Wireless USB Adapter, on the back is FCC ID# MXF-WL280, H/W: B2, F/W: 2.25

On the bottom of the PCB, we have the following chips:

• Atmel AT76C503A – Wireless LAN MAC Unit with ARM7TDMI RISC Processor
• Atmel AT25040N – 4K (512 x 8) SPI Serial EEPROM
• tmTECH T14L1024N – 128 x 9 High-Speed CMOS Static RAM
• Intersil HFA3861BIN – Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Baseband Processor

On the top of the PCB (under the RF shield), we have the following chips:

• Intersil HFA3683AIN – 2.4GHz RF/IF Converter and Synthesizer
• Intersil HFA3783IN – I/Q Modulator/Demodulator and Synthesizer
• Intersil HFA3983IV – 2.4GHz Power Amplifier and Detector

I plugged it into my i386-based laptop (My x64 desktop doesn’t have drivers) and got this dmesg:

[   80.592101] usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[   80.763204] usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   81.504200] cfg80211: Using static regulatory domain info
[   81.504209] cfg80211: Regulatory domain: US
[   81.504215] 	(start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
[   81.504224] 	(2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2700 mBm)
[   81.504233] 	(5170000 KHz - 5190000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm)
[   81.504241] 	(5190000 KHz - 5210000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm)
[   81.504248] 	(5210000 KHz - 5230000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm)
[   81.504256] 	(5230000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm)
[   81.504264] 	(5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 3000 mBm)
[   81.504290] cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: US
[   81.654555] cfg80211: Regulatory domain changed to country: US
[   81.654567] 	(start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
[   81.654577] 	(2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2700 mBm)
[   81.654585] 	(5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 1700 mBm)
[   81.654593] 	(5250000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[   81.654601] 	(5490000 KHz - 5710000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[   81.654609] 	(5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 3000 mBm)
[   81.912231] Atmel at76x USB Wireless LAN Driver 0.17 loading
[   81.912307] usb 1-2: firmware: requesting atmel_at76c503-i3861.bin
[   81.965349] usb 1-2: using firmware atmel_at76c503-i3861.bin (version 0.90.0-44)
[   81.967174] at76c50x-usb 1-2:1.0: downloading internal firmware
[   84.329808] usb 1-2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[   84.477154] usb 1-2: device firmware changed
[   84.477265] usbcore: registered new interface driver at76c50x-usb
[   84.492786] usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 2
[   84.604098] usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[   84.781393] usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   84.789161] at76c50x-usb 1-2:1.0: downloading external firmware
[   85.032206] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel'
[   85.034924] phy0: USB 1-2:1.0, MAC 00:05:5d:f1:9d:39, firmware 0.90.0-44
[   85.034935] phy0: regulatory domain 0x00: <unknown>
[   85.383777] udev: renamed network interface wlan0 to wlan1
[   89.584738] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan1: link is not ready