D-Link Wireless Card Problems

Forum: Networking
Topic: D-Link Wireless Card Problems
started by: Bacon Theory

Posted by Bacon Theory on June 11 2005,02:05

Hey everyone, I'm pretty new to Linux and I was skeptical about it until I tried DSL, now I believe! Anyhow, I noticed that there were a lot of posts pertaining to wireless card problems. Well, I have another one, but It's a D-Link card, which I haven't seen a post about yet. I read on the DSL documentation that you could get wireless to work with just about any wireless card if you put in a little work. I really want to get the internet working on DL because Microsoft has screwed me again and Windows will lock out in 30-days unless I "activate" it. Just for that, I think that I'm going to give Linux a try instead. So if you can help me out here and let me know how to get wireless going with a D-Link DWL-520 PCI card, then I would be eternally grateful.

Posted by polypagan on June 12 2005,11:47

Sorry, I can't help you with this (at least, I don't think I can), 'cause I too am having problems getting my D-Link Card to work with DSL.

I have a DELL Inspiron 1100 laptop and a DWL-650 (RevP) cardbus adapter (802.11b). At boot-up, DSL starts cardmgr, which beeps and complains:

cardmgr[53]: starting, version 3.2.2
cardmgr[53]: unsupported card in socket 0
cardmgr[53]: product info "D-Link"
cardmgr[53]: "DWL-650 Wireless PC Card RevP" "ISL37101P-10" "A3"
cardmgr[53]: manfid: 0x000b, 0x7110 function: 6 network

Okay, so I found /etc/pcmcia/config (and config-2.2 and config-2.4), which are full of card descriptions just like this. I added an entry for my card with bind "prism2_cs". This makes absolutely now difference.

I am too much of a n00bie to figure out who or what or if these config's get used (seems logical). Do I need to do something to make them current?

Of course nothing works to program the card, cause it is not even found. I think I am on the right track, just stopped.

I have also tried the ndiswrapper route. Driver loads and claims hardware in NOT present. dmesg complains about alignment.

Again, I am stumped. I have spent days hunting and hacking.

Looking forward to some wise and helpful suggestions. Thanks.

Posted by ke4nt1 on June 12 2005,13:50

These threads may help with the DWL 650 card..
From what your posting, it does seem to be recognized in
your pcmcia slot at boottime ..

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;hl=dwl >
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....d+%650% >

There are some DWL 520's that are an easy setup,
and some versions (revisions) that seem to be much more difficult.
Search the forums for DWL or 520 , as I found many, many threads
regarding this popular card..

73
ke4nt