newbie trying to get more info on d-link wireless card

hshelnutt · n00b Joined: 01 Sep 2003 Posts: 17

i am a newbie to gentoo, i have limited red hat expereice and i am wanting to get gentoo installed. i have a d-link dwl g520 wireless card and i am wondering if the 1.4 livecd will have support for this card, and if not what i will need to do or if there is anything that i can do to get this card working under gentoo.

thanks for any help
henry

p3nguin · Apprentice Joined: 01 Jul 2003 Posts: 188 Location: ~/

your best bet will be to run the livecd and see if it autodetects your card and loads the appropriate module for it. If you can ping another computer (say yahoo.com) then it found the right module. If you type lsmod one of the first modules will be for ur NIC. just compile that one into your kernel and your done.

MorphiusFaydal · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 8:14 pm Post subject:

IMHO, you should never use a dlink card with linux.

i have the dwl-520+ card, and it doesnt work without some serious web searching and trusting your card to rather dubious drivers....

(if anyone knows wireless networking check my post:D

)

i dont know what chip the 54G cards are based on, but if tis acx100, dont count on it working anytime soon..

yeah..

i might get an ethernet 2 wireless bridge..

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hshelnutt · n00b Joined: 01 Sep 2003 Posts: 17

I am not sure what chip set it is using, but i have found source for a driver for the card. i know that gentoo uses patched kernels so i am not sure if this source will compile with gentoo. thanks for the suggestions.

henry

hshelnutt · n00b Joined: 01 Sep 2003 Posts: 17

i have tried booting with the 1.4 livecd and it still does not detect the wireless card. i am not sure how to continue i have the source for a driver but i am not sure that it work with the kernel that gentoo uses. any thoughts?? thanks for all the help

henry

vertex · n00b Joined: 14 Nov 2002 Posts: 29

I can't say I have done this, but you should be able to make this work. I have installed gentoo on my laptop without the gentoo livecd. Even if you could get the drivers copied over to be usable(second cdrom or what-have-you), you would need kernel headers to compile them, which I don't think are in a stage* tarball. I would probably try using a Knoppix variation with known good wifi support. From here you can setup partitions, untar the tarball and chroot like usual. I would not suggest trying to use clusterKnoppix for this, because python and openmosix do not play well, at least not in my experience. Check out http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/KnoppixCustomizations for some custom CD's. The stock iso might work well, but I would have to do some research on the driver. What is the name of the linux driver anyway?

hshelnutt · n00b Joined: 01 Sep 2003 Posts: 17

The Dlink card is a DWL g520, the driver that i have is from the madwifi project. i found it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/ but i could not find much documentation for it. i have used knoppix before, i know the stock cd will not detect my card but i will check out some of the customes.

thanks
henry