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

Forum: Hardware Talk
Topic: Problem with wifi PCI card D-Link DWL-520+
started by: bookman761

Posted by bookman761 on 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

Posted by tempestuous on 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.

Posted by howard__ on Dec. 01 2005,16:07

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