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Posted: Dec. 30 2005,07:18

I have installes the correct driver for a Dlink DWLG630 wireless card. When I use the command ndiswrapper in the root directory the response is as follows...

Installed ndis drivers:
net5211 driver present, hardware present
netcard invalid driver!

Any suggestions to get the card working.

note: the drivers are copied from the install disk. The latest from dlink are only available as an .exe file and I cannot get the inf out of this file.

Thnak you

cbagger01

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Posted: Dec. 30 2005,20:08

It appears that there are a number of different drivers recommended for this ndiswrapper and this card, depending on ther version. Check this page for more info:

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List#D

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Posted: Dec. 31 2005,00:52

thank you for the info. this driver is the same as what i had before. I did uninstall my old driver and reinstalled the one from the link in wiki but i still get the same response.
when i do an iwconfig the response is...
lo no wireless extensions.

Any other ideas?

Thank you

hs7sv

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Posted: Dec. 31 2005,17:03

You need 2 files for ndiswrapper - inf and sys files. Please check if net5211.inf and ar5211.sys are in the same directory (such as /home/dsl/)?

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Posted: Jan. 06 2006,07:49

Thanks for the advice. I do have all the correct files, both drivers and system files but the card still fails the connection. I have also tries ndiswrapper as well as madwifi. Nothing allows the connection. Any suggestions? I really like DSL but I might have to try another lite distro in order to get the wireless working. I hope not though.

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