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Topic: Wireless card no longer works in 2.0, Lost wireless network capability in 2.0

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dtf

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Posted: Dec. 20 2005,20:59

Network Card: D-Link DSL-650 IEEE 802.11b

I can not configure my network card (above) in DSL 2.0 that previously was working in DSL 1.5.

When I go to DSL 2.0 I lose my wireless capability. I notice that during the boot sequence the D-LINK wireless card is no longer assigned to port eth0 but is now assigned wlan0. That seems reasonable and I can even see that the card and model are recognized. However, I am not able to configure to the card. With DSL 1.5 I used Wlanconfig to configure the card to eth0 but that does not work for DSL 2.0. I was making some progress with using Prism2. In fact, ifconfig shows me the wlan0 interface with what I am assuming is a valid MAC but my attempts to get network connections fail. I have tried both DHCP and assigning a static IP. This is all done using the DSLpanel tool.

Any thoughts? Thanks.

roberts

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Posted: Dec. 20 2005,21:21

Looks like it is a discontinued product. Maybe that is why it is not in the latest kernel.
See:
http://support.dlink.com/products/view.asp?productid=DWL-650

However: It does appear to be one that can be used with ndiswrapper.

# Card: D-Link Air DWL-650
* Chipset: Realtek 8180
* pciid: 10ec:8180 (rev 20)
* Driver: XP Drivers from http://www.dlink.com
* Other: Tested on debian unstable with Ndiswrapper 0.8, kernel 2.6.5 custom on July 6th Works perfectly even under high transfer rates. Will come out of suspend properly. Ejecting card does NOT hang system. Issue: iwconfig reports 100% link quality all the time, even at high distances from access point ??

I would certainly try this approch.
1. download the driver for WinXP from http://www.dlink.com
2. unpack just the driver stuff into your home dir.
Then as user root
3. ndiswrapper -i xxxxxx.inf
Where xxxxxx is the name of the driver once unpacked.
4. modprobe ndiswrapper
5. iwconfig
This will show unconfiguered device name e.g., wlan0

6. iwconfig wlan0 essid your_sid_here
7. other iwconfig command as maybe necessary for encryption
8. pump -i wlan0

Step 6-8 could possibly be replaced with wlanconfig using the device name as shown from step 5

HTH

doobit

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Posted: Dec. 20 2005,21:44

Remember, once you get it working to put myiwconfig.sh as a line in bootlocal.sh to make it permanent.

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dtf

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Posted: Dec. 22 2005,14:14

I appreciate the detail explanation. Thanks.

I followed the instruction and downloaded the XP driver from the URL you gave me and unpacked it. There are 8 files, 3 having to do with the setup but of the other 5 I am not sure which file I should run ndiswrapper on.

data 1 --> cabinet file
data 2 --> cabinet file
layout --> bin (binary)
data1.hdr
ikernel.ex_

If I had to guess I would pick the last one or maybe I am missing a step but I do no see a file with the extension .inf.

Sorry for being so slow here but I hate working in windows other than running applications not available in Linux.

roberts

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Posted: Dec. 22 2005,14:52

Sorry to head that Dlink is so windows. I think I would be at a loss too. I would have thought it would be a zip file with a xxx.inf and xxx.sys, as those are the usual suspects.

I am curious about someting, you said you have a wlan0.
What is the output of the command
iwconfig

If iwconfig show a witeless device, maybe we can step you through the various iwconfig commands to properly configure it. If no device is shown then must keep digging in the windows stuff.

Edited by roberts on Dec. 22 2005,15:11

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