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AeroIllini
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 Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 5:15 pm Post subject: ndiswrapper 1.1 with D-Link DWL-G510 802.11g |
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I'm having a hard time getting my wireless card working. I'm using a D-Link DWL-G510 802.11g PCI card. I made sure Wireless Networking and Wireless extensions are both compiled into my v2.4 kernel, and I emerged wireless-tools 27 and ndiswrapper 1.1. I found the driver online (at the ASUS site, since it's the same driver) and installed ndiswrapper, with no errors. However, the kernel isn't recognizing the card, as there's no entry in dmesg about the card (just one about ndiswrapper loading successfully), and iwconfig still tells me I have no wireless extensions.
Is this a driver problem, since all my software seems to be in place and working? If so, has anyone had this problem and fixed it?
Help!
Here is some pertinent command-line information:
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[root] ~ $ emerge search ndiswrapper wireless-tools
Searching...
[ Results for search key : ndiswrapper ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* net-wireless/ndiswrapper
Latest version available: 1.1
Latest version installed: 1.1
Size of downloaded files: 132 kB
Homepage: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/
Description: Wrapper for using Windows drivers for some wireless cards
License: GPL-2
Searching...
[ Results for search key : wireless-tools ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* net-wireless/wireless-tools
Latest version available: 27
Latest version installed: 27
Size of downloaded files: 183 kB
Homepage: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html
Description: A collection of tools to configure wireless lan cards.
License: GPL-2
[root] ~ $ cat /usr/src/linux/.config | egrep 'CONFIG_NET_(RADIO|WIRELESS)'
CONFIG_NET_RADIO=y
CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS=y
[root] ~ $ iwconfig --version
iwconfig Wireless-Tools version 27
Compatible with Wireless Extension v11 to v17.
Kernel Currently compiled with Wireless Extension v16.
[root] ~ $ ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
mrv8k51 present,fuzzy
[root] ~ $ lspci | grep Ethernet
0000:00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Galileo Technology Ltd.: Unknown device 1fa6 (rev 07)
0000:00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Standard Microsystems Corp [SMC] 83C170QF (rev 08)
[root] ~ $ lspci -n | grep a[.]0
0000:00:0a.0 Class 0200: 11ab:1fa6 (rev 07)
[root] ~ $ cat /etc/conf.d/wireless | grep ^[^#]
essid_wlan0="welchnet"
channel_wlan0="6"
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AeroIllini
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| Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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Here's a partial update.
I checked through /var/log/messages and found the following incriminating evidence:
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[root] ~/CD_Driver/Win2K $ tail /var/log/messages
Apr 15 13:38:24 periapsis1 devfsd[42]: action_compat: error unlinking: "ndiswrapper" No such file or directory
Apr 15 13:39:48 periapsis1 ndiswrapper version 1.1 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=no)
Apr 15 13:39:48 periapsis1 devfsd[42]: error calling: "unlink" in "GLOBAL"
Apr 15 13:39:48 periapsis1 loadndisdriver: loadndisdriver: add_driver_devices(432): file 11AB:1FA6:11AB:1FA4 is not valid - ignored
Apr 15 13:39:48 periapsis1 loadndisdriver: loadndisdriver: add_driver_devices(432): file 11AB:1FA6:1186:3B08 is not valid - ignored
Apr 15 13:39:48 periapsis1 loadndisdriver: loadndisdriver: add_driver_devices(432): file 11AB:1FA6:1186:3B09 is not valid - ignored
Apr 15 13:39:48 periapsis1 loadndisdriver: loadndisdriver: add_driver_devices(432): file 11AB:1FA6 is not valid - ignored
Apr 15 13:39:48 periapsis1 loadndisdriver: loadndisdriver: load_all_devices(522): no valid NDIS drives found in /etc/ndiswrapper; you may need to reinstall Windows drivers
Apr 15 13:39:48 periapsis1 devfsd[42]: error calling: "unlink" in "GLOBAL"
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The line that says "error unlinking ndiswrapper" showed up when I unloaded the ndiswrapper module (using modprobe -r). The others show up when I reload it (using modprobe).
The same error messages show up when I use the CD drivers and when I use the (updated) downloadable ones. I even tried using the drivers for other versions of windows, since the packages contain versions for WinXP, Win2K, WinME, and Win98. All give the same results.
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heheho
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| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 12:47 pm Post subject: check the ndiswrapper page |
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sorry my english is very bad.
check the ndiswrapper page! you must edit the .inf file. It's a document for the D-Link on this site.
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AeroIllini
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| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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| I searched through the ndiswrapper site on sourceforge, and didn't see any pages about editing an .inf file for a DWL-G510. Could you give me a URL? |
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AeroIllini
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| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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Any ideas about this?
**BUMP** |
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