Dlink DWA-642

Forum: Networking
Topic: Dlink DWA-642
started by: claude

Posted by claude on July 21 2007,02:52

I try to configure this wireless card (Dlink DWA-642) 802.1n mode: I am using ndiswrapper with windows driver (net5416.inf):

hardware is present but no signal is active on the card (Act)

no wireless wlan0 or ath0 is present (iwconfig)

I tried it with dsl 2.1,3.2, 3.3, 3.4 and 4.0alpha: same result

from dmesg: it says 'Windows can't initialize device C000001'

lspci shows the chipset as Atheros

From cardmgr (3.2.2 or 3.2.5 (dsl 2.1)), the card is absent

Any hint about this problem ?

Thank you very much

Claude

Posted by curaga on July 21 2007,06:38

if you can settle with a/b/g speeds use the madwifi driver.. it's a native linux one, so it probably works better..

Posted by claude on July 21 2007,16:53

I tried madwifi_ng_2.4.26

Here are the results:

wlan: 0.8.4.2 (svn 1453)
wlan: mac acl policy registered
ath_hal: 0.9.16.16 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
ath_rate_sample: 1.2 (svn 1453)
ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (svn 1453)

iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

cardctl ident
Socket 0:
no product info available
Socket 1:
no product info available

lspci:
0000:14:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications, Inc,: Unknown device
0023 (rev 01)

Still waiting for more hints.....

Thank you very much.

Claude