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AeroIllini
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Joined: 01 Feb 2004
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 Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 9:19 pm Post subject: D-Link wireless card and ndiswrapper |
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I am having some problems getting my D-Link DWL-G510 card working with ndiswrapper. It has worked before, with an older version of ndiswrapper, but my first setup was kind of hit-or-miss, and I don't remember what configuration I had before. I have been all over the forums and haven't seen anything that might help (if I missed a post, by all means point it out.)
I recently did a world update emerge, and since there was a new version of ndiswrapper available, I went ahead and updated it. The new version gave me kernel panics, however, and now I am caught in the quagmire of getting my wireless card to work at all.
Ndiswrapper seems to be working properly, but it still will not detect the card.
Some pertinent information:
From the command line:
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[root] ~ $ lsmod
Module Size Used by Tainted: P
sr_mod 14776 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ide-cd 29668 0 (autoclean)
cdrom 26948 0 (autoclean) [sr_mod ide-cd]
ide-scsi 9680 0
sg 27644 0 (unused)
scsi_mod 82084 3 [sr_mod ide-scsi sg]
ndiswrapper 112280 0
nvidia 4585932 6
[root] ~ $ ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
mrv8ka51 present
[root] ~ $ lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS645 Host & Memory & AGP Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5591/5592 AGP
0000:00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513
0000:00:02.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 07)
0000:00:02.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 07)
0000:00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)
0000:00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
0000:00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
0000:00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Galileo Technology Ltd.: Unknown device 1fa6 (rev 07) <-- Wireless card
0000:00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Standard Microsystems Corp [SMC] 83C170QF (rev 08) <-- Wired card
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX420] (rev a3)
[root] ~ $ lspci -n
0000:00:00.0 Class 0600: 1039:0645 (rev 01)
0000:00:01.0 Class 0604: 1039:0001
0000:00:02.0 Class 0601: 1039:0008
0000:00:02.2 Class 0c03: 1039:7001 (rev 07)
0000:00:02.3 Class 0c03: 1039:7001 (rev 07)
0000:00:02.5 Class 0101: 1039:5513 (rev d0)
0000:00:05.0 Class 0401: 13f6:0111 (rev 10)
0000:00:09.0 Class 0401: 1274:5880 (rev 02)
0000:00:0a.0 Class 0200: 11ab:1fa6 (rev 07) <-- Corresponds to Marvell W8300 driver
0000:00:0d.0 Class 0200: 10b8:0005 (rev 08)
0000:01:00.0 Class 0300: 10de:0172 (rev a3)
[root] ~ $ ls -l /etc/ndiswrapper/mrv8ka51/
total 312
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 902 Jan 26 22:58 11AB:1FA6.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 902 Jan 26 22:58 11AB:1FA7.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 902 Jan 26 22:58 11AB:1FA7:1043:108F.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 902 Jan 26 22:58 11AB:1FA7:1043:128F.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 902 Jan 26 22:58 11AB:1FA7:1043:138E.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 902 Jan 26 22:58 11AB:1FA7:1043:138F.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 902 Jan 26 22:58 11AB:1FA7:2A1B:103C.conf
-rw------- 1 root root 22220 Jan 26 22:58 mrv8ka51.inf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 258432 Jan 26 22:58 mrv8ka51.sys
[root] ~ $ /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start
* Starting wlan0
* Bringing up wlan0
* Configuration not set for wlan0 - assuming dhcp
* dhcp
* wlan0 does not exist [ !! ]
[root] ~ $ dmesg | grep ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper version 1.0rc4 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=no)
[root] ~ $ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
[root] ~ $ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:29:2B:98:03
inet addr:192.168.0.51 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1797 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1138 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1438514 (1.3 Mb) TX bytes:187750 (183.3 Kb)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xa000
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:160 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:160 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:8000 (7.8 Kb) TX bytes:8000 (7.8 Kb)
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The uncommented lines in /etc/conf.d/wireless:
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# /etc/conf.d/wireless:
# Global wireless config file for net.* rc-scripts
essid_wlan0="welchnet"
channel_wlan0="6"
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/etc/conf.d/net:
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# This blank configuration will automatically use DHCP for any net.*
# scripts in /etc/init.d. To create a more complete configuration,
# please review /etc/conf.d/net.example and save your configuration
# in /etc/conf.d/net (this file :]!).
# Static IP address
config_eth0=( "192.168.0.51 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255" )
# Default gateway
routes_eth0=( "default via 192.168.0.1" )
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I am running wireless-tools-27, baselayout-1.11.8, and ndiswrapper-1.0-pre4 (directly from SourceForge, because ndiswrapper-1.0-pre3 in the portage tree was giving me kernel panics).
Ndiswrapper is autoloaded as a module at boot, and the init script outputs a large number of errors which I can't copy here because those init script outputs on boot are not logged. I remember that they say something about file XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX not being valid (where the Xs are numbers and letters which I assume correspond to the conf files in /etc/ndiswrapper/mrv8ka51) My eth0 interface works perfectly.
Thoughts? Ideas? Suggestions?
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AeroIllini
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Does anyone even know of any other settings I should be checking?
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kevev
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I had alot of trouble with my DWL-G630. They are similar cards.
Try this.
# ndiswrapper -e mrv8ka51
Then uninstall ndiswrapper.
(if your card is pcmcia) remove you wireless card and reboot.
alt-F12 to your console and insert the card. if your system is calling a module that exist then that could be your problem. I had that problem
on my system. If a module is loaded then do
# rmmod <module name>
do
# locate <module name>
Remove your card. Then remove the file.
rm <file name>
That should prevent it from loading.
Install the latest stable 1.0 from Sourceforge.
Get the latest WindowsXP driver form manufacturer and install it.
See what happens. Hope I didnt elaborate too much. I see you seem to know what you are doing.
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