working wireless cards

Forum: Networking
Topic: working wireless cards
started by: haby

Posted by haby on June 07 2006,05:34

according the mentioned list, ive bought a new wireless card "d-link dwl g 650" version: c2 which should work out of the box.

but it doesnt!

dsl recognices this card and the chipset but it is not able to run it. dsl doesnt find it while trying to configure it. there is no dsl tool which could find and configure the network card!

dsl seems to be in general unable to run wireless pc-cards!

have you any idea (please dont refer to links which dont work, so my impreessions)

Posted by haby on June 08 2006,06:55

so iam sorry, this board isnt in the position to give help for dsl users.
have a look at unbuntu. another world.

sorry. shutting down will be no loss.

Posted by jonam on June 08 2006,13:39

Haby,

You have given little information on your exact problem. What system do you have? I am assuming that after doing an iwconfig ath0 scan, you get no results.

I have the same card and have been able to get it working eventually (after quite a few weeks of trying) using DSL 2.1b rather than 2.4. on an old Compaq 1530d.

Jonam

Posted by JB4x4 on June 08 2006,22:48

If your wireless card has a Atheros wireless chip detected the madwifi-ng-2.4.26.uci extension in the MyDSL testing area will probably work. You can find it < HERE >. Otherwise you could try NdisWrapper with the windows drivers that were included with the card.

Posted by polo_step on June 10 2006,12:51

Quote (haby @ June 08 2006,02:55)

> have a look at unbuntu. another world.

Ubuntu's wireless support became a total trainwreck with 6.06.

Don't expect it to work well for you.

Posted by kerry on June 10 2006,23:07

Let him go, he used dsl for 1 day and made 4 posts, he's not going to take the time to learn linux. Like i tell everyone who uses wireless over here, get a US robotics ethernet bridge it turns any wired system to wireless you set it once and forget it, you can jump from linux to linux and still have a connection with no setup.

Posted by cbagger01 on June 11 2006,04:43

You can also buy a Linksys WRT54g wireless router and install a Linux firmware update like Sveasoft or OpenWRT and you can turn it into a combination 4 port wireless Ethernet bridge and also a wireless repeater. Just use the "WDS" feature.

The WRT54G are selling for an extra $10 over the price of a wireless adapter, so if you want a wireless desktop PC and/or gaming console with no special wireless driver issues, it is a great choice.