Dlink wireless card

einstein1981 · Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 10:17 pm Post subject: Dlink wireless card

Hi , i'm trying to configure a Dlink dwl-g650 wireless card, on my dell inspiron laptop... i've been reading the forum on this, but I can honestly say I don't know where to start...

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if someone could be kind enough to give me step by step instruccions, to get this working...

also I'v read that there is a g650, g650+, and a g650 a1, I really have no idea what this is?

how can I find out
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thank you again
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smart · Guru Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 455

Look at the model name exactly and you'll either find a "+" symbol or you won't. simple as that. If it's one of those based on the acx100, this may help:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/acx100/

K-Dawg · Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 3:16 pm Post subject:

Emerge the madwifi-driver for the atheros chipset and you should be good to go

einstein1981 · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 1:12 am Post subject:

hi sorry for not answering before, wasn't at home, the thing is that I don't even know if my pcmia solt is working since no lights are light on the card ( in windows it works perfectly)

so I don't know really if I should even start to configure it

thank you

CHarles
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einstein1981 · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 2:13 am Post subject:

ok so this is what i've done:

i included pcmcia support in the kernel
then I emerged madwifi-drivers
then emerged wireless-tools

I recompiled the kernel and rebooted it, but still if I do
root@pygoscelis charz # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

and if I do

root@pygoscelis charz # ifconfig ath0 up
ath0: unknown interface: No such device

any ideas please.

I checked and there is no "+" on the card

thank you
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UberLord · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 8:16 am Post subject:

Have you emerged pcmcia-cs?

thecooptoo · Veteran Joined: 27 Apr 2003 Posts: 1353 Location: UK

ive just got a DL link 650+ on my Dell using ndiswrapper

modprobe ndiswrapper
ifconfig - a should show wlan0
iwconfig wlan0 essid .......
iwconfig channel.......
iwconfig wlan made ad-hoc
iwlist wlan0 scan
dhcpcd wlan0 ( assuming its a DHCP server)

einstein1981 · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 4:10 pm Post subject:

hey thanksfor the answers, here is what I get so far:

root@pygoscelis charz # rc-update add pcmcia default
* pcmcia added to runlevel default
* Caching service dependencies...
* rc-update complete.
root@pygoscelis charz # rc
* PCMCIA support detected.
* Starting pcmcia...
cardmgr[7600]: no sockets found!
* cardmgr failed to start. Make sure that you have PCMCIA
* modules built or support compiled into the kernel [ !! ]
root@pygoscelis charz #
root@pygoscelis charz # lsmod
Module Size Used by
nvidia 1702508 -
root@pygoscelis charz # modprobe ath_pci
root@pygoscelis charz # lsmod
Module Size Used by
ath_pci 36260 -
wlan 42240 -
ath_hal 121616 -
nvidia 1702508 -
root@pygoscelis charz # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

root@pygoscelis charz #

in the kernel I only did support for pcmcia....

any ideas on what is missing?

by the way, still no lights on the card
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smart · Guru Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 455

When you say you enabled PCMCIA i suspect you enabled the header only. Meaning you have enavbled the choices but no driver actually. lspci will give you more information about your socket, most more recent system use Cardbus/yenta. In this case, go back to your kernel configuration and verify that you have cardbus / yenta support (as module i'd suggest).

einstein1981 · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 5:21 pm Post subject:

thanks again, you are right i just enabled the first option, this is the lspci output:

Erdgeist · n00b Joined: 06 Jun 2004 Posts: 26 Location: germany

i have the same card, and the "link-diode" is flashing.
But i get an "access denied" when i want to emerge ndiswrapper, same with emerge madwifi driver.

so my question is: what and how should i configure in the kernel

lspci says:

0000:06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)

greetings

erdgeist
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UberLord · Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 11:58 am Post subject:

Erdgeist · n00b Joined: 06 Jun 2004 Posts: 26 Location: germany

sry, i'm drunken, but i dont think taht you understood me.

i need a how to for the kernel config.
not more, not less.

good night, sleep well

erdgeist

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UberLord · Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 11:43 pm Post subject:

/usr/src/linux/.config

li1_getoo · l33t Joined: 20 Oct 2002 Posts: 661 Location: Queens , NY

http://support.dlink.com
follow the directions then theres FAQ for linux drivers click on those links

Erdgeist · n00b Joined: 06 Jun 2004 Posts: 26 Location: germany

ok, now i got it black on white. i need the madwifi driver, but why get i an "access denied" for the /usr/src/linux/.tmp_versions/ -folder and the /usr/src/linux/.__modpost.cmd

i tried to emerge as root.
i emerged other stuff, with no problems.

greeting Erdgeist

[edit]

thats what i made so far:
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" FEATURES="-userpriv" emerge madwifi-driver

edit /etc/conf.d/net
iface_ath0="dhcp"

root

lsmod
Module Size Used by
ath_pci 37380 -
wlan 57896 -
ath_hal 126864 -

root

ifconfig -a
ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:3D:86:F8:F0
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Memory:d08eb000-d08fb000

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:D0:59:05:71:C6
inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2776 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2974 errors:8 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:8
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1485914 (1.4 Mb) TX bytes:351337 (343.1 Kb)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:608 (608.0 b) TX bytes:608 (608.0 b)

root

and now?
how can i create a /etc/init.d/net.ath0 modul?

greetings erdgeist
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skally · n00b Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 33

Try this:

Erdgeist · n00b Joined: 06 Jun 2004 Posts: 26 Location: germany

great, its working...ITS WORKING

but i have to make modprobe ath_pci by my self, every time after i restarted my the notebook.
then i can start net.ath0.
can i change that?
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UberLord · Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 2:09 pm Post subject:

Add ath_pci to /etc/modules.autoload.d/<kernel version>

Hotplug should do this for you as well - well it does for my PCI card
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Erdgeist · n00b Joined: 06 Jun 2004 Posts: 26 Location: germany

it*s working like i want now. thanks to everyone who helped

greetings Erdgeist
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lunarg · Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 10:01 am Post subject:

akashk · n00b Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 1

lunarg · Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 6:57 am Post subject:

It worked

Thanks.
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