D-Link DWL-650 - Mandrake 10.1 - newb

[Guest danafoo]

Has anyone gotten this card to work?

 

If you did, can you let me now know how? When I insert the card, I get a green "Act" light.

 

cardctl status (returns)

 

Socket 0:

5V 16-bit PC Card

function 0: [ready]

 

cardctl ident (returns)

 

output:

Socket 0:

product into: "D-link", "DWL-650 Wireless PC Card RevP", "ISL37101P-10", "A3"

manfid: 0x000b, 0x7110

function: 6 (network)

 

But I am unsure as to what to do next. Any help would be apprecaited. Thanks!

 

Oh, this is on a Presario 900US. I'm thinking this is good, since mandrake 10.0 didn't even recognize the card at all. I'm wondering if I need to put something in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. Correct? if so, what?

[devries]

According to google you need madwifi. http://www.mattfoster.clara.co.uk/madwifi-faq.htm

[Guest danafoo]

Thanks, I will try this.

 

Unfortunately searching on the internet I found a sight saying that my version of the card, version P, is not supported. But I'll give this madwifi a go and see if I can get results. Thanks for your help.

[durvish]

I use this card with ndiswrapper and I get great performance.

[Guest danafoo]

Did you use the NETPRISM.INF file off of the CD that came with the card?

 

I tried using it and when I inserted the card and ran ndiswrapper -l:

 

I got netprism hardware NOT present.

 

I used ndiswrapper 0.9 on Mandrake 10.1.

[durvish]

first things first

 

did you have your kernel source installed when you installed ndiswrapper

 

also did you uninstall the version of ndiswrapper that mandrake installs by default when you install your os

 

then are you using the latest ndiswrapper from sourceforge

 

also on your cd you should have a driver along with the .INF file --- you need to have both

Edited December 22, 2004 by durvish

[Guest danafoo]

I do have the kernel source installed. /usr/src/linux

 

I uninstalled the original ndiswrapper 0.4. urpme ndiswrapper

 

and then tried to build it from source from sourceforge. However, oddly enough even after creating a symbolic link from /usr/src/linux to /lib/modules/{kernel-version}/build - I kept getting an error saying that make couldn't find the kernel sources. However, when I go to /usr/src/linux, it's there.

 

I thought about editing the makefile, but said forget it. I then issued

 

urpmi ndiswrapper , just to see...

 

and Mandrake istalled ndiswrapper 0.9 not 0.12

 

and I used that to install the drivers off of the CD, but no go. ndiswrapper -i netprism.inf and it seemed to install fine.

 

So maybe I'll have to give the latest ndiswrapper a try and figure out exactly why it can't find the kernel sources, despite having created the link.

 

Could it be that this is a default kernel and I have never run 'make menuconfig' or built a custom kernel?

 

Thanks for all your help.

[durvish]

no I am using the default kernel also

[durvish]

run

iwconfig

as root and post the results

 

ps

 

did you modprobe ndiswrapper?

[Guest danafoo]

Hello Again!

 

iwconfig reports no wireless extensions on lo, eth0 and sit0.

 

after installing the drivers, I ran ndiswrapper -m (to create alias directive) and added 'ndiswrapper' to /etc/modprobe.preload, and and then placed the card in the slot and rebooted.

 

Dmesg shows this:

 

ndiswrapper version 0.8 loaded

ndiswrapper: Alignment mismatch: secion: 0x1000, file: 0x200

Unable to prepare driver

 

 

any thoughts?

 

Thanks for all your help!

[durvish]

please post the results of

iwconfig

Edited December 24, 2004 by durvish

[Guest danafoo]

iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

 

eth0 no wireless extensions.

 

sit0 no wireless extensions.

 

ndiswrapper is loaded as well.

[durvish]

you need to create a file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ called ifcfg-wlan0

 

it should look something like this according to your setup

 

DEVICE=wlan0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
ESSID=whatever you ESSID is
MODE=Managed
KEY= if your using wep

 

also you might want to go into the ifcfg-eth0 script and change ONBOOT to no

[Guest danafoo]

you need to create a file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ called ifcfg-wlan0

 

it should look something like this according to your setup

 

DEVICE=wlan0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
ESSID=whatever you ESSID is
MODE=Managed
KEY= if your using wep

 

also you might want to go into the ifcfg-eth0 script and change ONBOOT to no

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

Durvish,

 

I want to thank you for all your help. I tried doing the above and it still wouldn't work. So I gave up, adn returned the card and picked up a Netgear WG511. Plugged it in, harddrake recognized the card and proceeded to configure it.

 

The only hiccup there was that it needed to upload Prism54 firmware to get the card started. I installed the firmware via rpm, and when I restarted the network, up came wireless! I'm so happy. I've been dealing with this for almost a week! Oh happy day! Merry Christmas!

 

-Danafoo

[durvish]

right on!