D-link G650 wireless cardForum: Networking Topic: D-link G650 wireless card started by: Fuzzhead Posted by Fuzzhead on May 16 2005,02:15
My laptop is 233 MHz w/64 mb ram, and runs DSL like a champ. However, I can not get the D-Link card to work.The card is D-Link AirPlus DWL-G650 card. I have the windows drivers, I think, and can mount the HDD to get them. From the root-access XShell, I used the ndiswrapper command for those driver files. I then run ndiswrapper -l and get this Installed ndis drivers: net5211 hardward present. the command iwconfig: lo no wireless extensions. ath0 IEEE801.11.....blah, blah blah, (will post all if needed) From DSL Control Panel, Netcardconfig: "No supported network cards found". Does all this mean, I did the right steps, but am simply out of luck with this card all together? Is there something else I can do? Thanks, Michael ps I am very new to linux, so please explain with that in mind. Thanks. Posted by SuperLou on May 16 2005,17:24
I have a D-Link AirPlus DWL-520+ and haven't had any luck with it. I also have little/no linux experience and not enough money to buy a supported card and would appreciate any help in setting it up. The card is not recognized at all as far as I know.
Posted by Fuzzhead on May 18 2005,13:08
SuperLou and Others,I am still looking for help, so if you get a minute please let me know what I can do or where I can go to get the info I need to run DSL and wireless. Thanks, Fuzzhead Posted by SuperLou on May 18 2005,23:19
At least it says your hardware is present in ndiswrapper. Mine says it's not present but shows up (i think) with lspci.
Posted by Fuzzhead on May 20 2005,12:31
Is someone out there that might be able to help SuperLou and I? Or perhaps point us to a good place for reference?Thanks, Fuzzhead Posted by SuperLou on May 20 2005,16:58
Have you checked out the irc channel? The folk there are the same celebrities from the forum and they actually understand this stuff. It's on freenode #damnsmalllinux
Posted by Tim Shark on May 22 2005,18:29
After spending a whole week with DSL, learning Linux at the same time as trying to get my D-link dwl-g650+ (revision b)working in DSL - I am now literary pleased to report success!!(Why I would spend a week of my life with this peace of hardware I don't know.) This is what I did and do:) First of all I googled night and day and found this page: < http://www.linuxquestions.org/questio....tid=286 > I followed alle the instructions right up to where it advises that if those of us with Knoppix or netcardconfig can omit the last three entries and use netcardconfig instead. DO NOT DO THIS: Just follow the steps. the netcardconfig in dslpanel just f***s the whole thing up again. This is the steps I do in the xterminal after booting up: (Is the same as on the link only with my own ip addresses...) iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed iwconfig wlan0 key XXXXXXXX // If you use security iwconfig wlan0 essid XXXXXXX // iwconfig wlan0 channel 11 /sbin/ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.12 up //my reserved ip /sbin/route add default gw 192.168.1.1 wlan0 I have saved this to a script wich I run with the exec command in xterminal after the system have booted up I have to run it two times because the first time I run it the card isn't ready to receive commands. It's running alright - but of course I need to make it run automatically on startup. I have tried to add those 6 lines to the /opt/bootlocal.sh script but the system locks up. What I need to do now is to to find a way to run it auto after X is up and running. Hope I made myself understandable and that this will help... (I posted this reply to someone else in this forum - with the same card) Some final words: DSL is fantastic - I've tried several Linux distros because I'm tired of the heavy systems with all the drivers, graphics, apps and so on..... But I must say - In our broadband-days - every distribution depend on internet connection to make hardware work - so why is there always someone lacking a drive for their netcard? Shouldn't netcard support be the most important thing in every distribution - linux, xp, unix etc.? Happy hunting.... Posted by SuperLou on May 22 2005,20:28
My wireless still argues the there is "No such device"
Posted by Tim Shark on May 22 2005,20:40
Are you using a windows driver that you know have worked with your card in windows?
Posted by SuperLou on May 22 2005,23:02
Yes, it's a D-Link AirPlus DWL-520+ with the windows driver using ndiswrapper.
Posted by Tim Shark on May 23 2005,01:56
Hmmm....I'm not sure I can help you. As you can see in my last post I'm a complete linux-greenhead at the moment. But I will tell you how I loaded my drivers into ndiswrapper. That's all I can do right now:) (Pardon me if all this is obvious to you - but instead of writing back and forth - i'll tell you all I did.) Ok... First of all I copied all the files from my original winxp driver cd to dsl with a usb-pen. That's 3 files: gplus.bin gplus.inf gplus.sys Then I used emelfm instead of the terminal to install the driver into ndiswrapper. Right clicked on gplus.info and selected "open with" and typed "sudo ndiswrapper -i" Then I opened xterminal and typed "sudo modprobe ndiswrapper - to make a configuration. Then "ndiswrapper -l" ndiswrapper reported: gplus hardware present and the went on with the script in my earlier post. That's what I did. Maybe I'm just lucky. ....maybe your driver doesn't work with ndiswrapper or maybe your card slot isn't up and running at all. I don't know - wish I did...:) Posted by cbagger01 on May 23 2005,03:32
Which "Windows" driver did you use?There are more than one version of MSWindows. Posted by SuperLou on May 23 2005,14:22
XP
Posted by Jeeves on May 23 2005,21:55
Hello , Totally new to Linux so I am hopeing someone can help. After reading this post I have managed to get the drivers installed BUT my computer is not detecting the hardware (it says "airplus hardware NOT present"). I don't think the PCMCIA slots are working as the card has no lights on. I have downloaded the 'PCMCIA support package' from pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net but (having never used Linux before) have no idea how to get this working. Is anyone able to help? PS: The card is a D-Link DWL-G650+ and I am using DSL (I don't know what version, or how to find out!) Thanks Posted by Tim Shark on May 24 2005,02:12
Tried the airplus-drivers myself - didn't work. use the gplus drivers. I tried the airplus drivers when I wanted to use the latest drivers for my card. Since I bought it in norway the D-link page redirected me to the norwegian site. And when you search for drivers for your dwl-g650+ card they give you the airplus driver.
Posted by Fuzzhead on May 24 2005,03:38
This reply is posted from my old laptop. If you can read this then,Thanks go to DSL and thanks to Tim Shark.... Your posting on May 22, @ 21.56 about using emelfm, and open with command work!!! Thank you ,thank you, thank you!!! Fuzzhead |