Tim Shark
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Joined: May 2005 |
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Posted: May 22 2005,18:29 |
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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....
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