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Topic: Problem with wifi PCI card D-Link DWL-520+

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bookman761 Offline

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Posted: Nov. 08 2005,15:52

Hi,
I have a D-link DWL-520+ PCI card running a live CD of DSL v2 RC1. I can't seem to get this card to work when I use ndiswrapper with drivers from the D-link site. I have tried the airplus.inf and the gplus.inf. Both will give me drivers loaded and hardware present when I install them with ndiswrapper. I then modprobe the ndiswrapper. But subsequent ipconfig and iwconfig gives me error messages.

BTW, I have installed this card fine with Puppy linux from their packages site without any problems.

Does anyone have a woking driver or instructions on getting this to work?

Thanks,
-FG

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Posted: Nov. 25 2005,08:29

At the ndiswrapper compatibility webpage - http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List
the D-Link DWL-520+ is mentioned as being identical to the Trendnet TEW-301PC, and the D-Link driver is mentioned as not working ... but apparently the Trendnet driver does work. So try this one.
And in case you don't know already, when ndiswrapper installs a Windows .inf file, it needs other driver files specified by the .inf file, especially .sys files. So you must have all related Windows driver files in the same location.

howard__

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Posted: Dec. 01 2005,16:07

On a similar note, are there any recommendations for PCI based wireless G network cards?

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