Guest adilnas Posted December 29, 2005 Report Share Posted December 29, 2005 I am trying to install the drivers for a D-Link DWL 520 Rev D PCI Wireless card in Mandrake Linux v. 10.1. I've been reading posts all day trying to get this information and haven't found any useful information as of yet so I am hoping to post my request here in the hopes I can get it here. What I've done so far is gather what I think are needed files to accomplish task: Linux Driver files(rtl8180_1.5_release26): 8180_26_private.ko Makefile r8180_if.h r8180_pci_init.c r8180_pci_init.h r8180_type.h readme26.txt rls_note_1220 wlandown wlanup NDiswrapper files (which I have no idea how to use): \debian \driver \utils AUTHORS ChangeLog INSTALL Makefile ndiswrapper.8 ndiswrapper.spec README version NDIS driver files specific to my wireless card: NET8180.INF Release.txt rtl8180.sys Let me add that I am a Linux newbie so please don't hold back on any details, if possible. Thanks, Adil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcuraRBKG6 Posted January 1, 2006 Report Share Posted January 1, 2006 (edited) Try this: 1) Install the card into the PC. 2) See if Mandy picks it up. If it doesn't: 3) Create a new wireless connection. You can do this by either clicking the star, system, network (I think) or just go into konsole as root and type drakconf. It will then give you the option to use the Windows INFs there. Have you checked the "HCL" for Mandriva to see if your card is up? Welcome aboard, btw Edited January 1, 2006 by AcuraRBKG6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest adilnas Posted January 2, 2006 Report Share Posted January 2, 2006 Try this: 1) Install the card into the PC. 2) See if Mandy picks it up. If it doesn't: 3) Create a new wireless connection. You can do this by either clicking the star, system, network (I think) or just go into konsole as root and type drakconf. It will then give you the option to use the Windows INFs there. Have you checked the "HCL" for Mandriva to see if your card is up? Welcome aboard, btw <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hi, Since my initial post, I've given up on installing the native Linux drivers. Btw, I was so encouraged to go the native Linux route because my Mandrake system saw the card. What I ended up doing was going the ndiswrapper route. I used the ndiswrapper utility and ndis windows driver that I downloaded from the web and was able to get my wireless card (D-Link DWL 520 PCI Wireless card) up. But I'm still running into one last hurdle which is I still have no connectivity (can't ping my gateway/ap and can't get out to the internet) even though my wireless card (wlan0) has an ip address and can detect the access point. I've included the output from my shell in the hopes someone can deduce a clue as to what the problem may be. The only thing that I can think of is that I installed a firewall during installation of Linux but I didn't configure it yet. Does the fw default policy block all traffic? wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"Adil" Nickname:"localhost" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.427GHz Access Point: 00:06:25:8D:3C:E7 Bit Rate=11Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=0/3 RTS thr=2432 B Fragment thr=2346 B Encryption key:B8CD-2464-C7E7-E84B-AB68-4CC4-0E Security mode:open Power Management:off Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-47 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 [root@Linuxmachine adilnas]# ifconfig wlan0 wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:95:87:83:49 inet addr:192.168.1.103 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::211:95ff:fe87:8349/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:25 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:3933 (3.8 Kb) TX bytes:1062 (1.0 Kb) Interrupt:16 Memory:ff6ffc00-ff6ffd00 [root@Linuxmachine adilnas]# ping 127.0.0.1 PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.127 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.118 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.122 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.120 ms --- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 2999ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.118/0.121/0.127/0.013 ms [root@Linuxmachine adilnas]# [root@Linuxmachine adilnas]# ping 192.168.1.1 PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data. From 192.168.1.103 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.103 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.103 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.103 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.103 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.103 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted From 192.168.1.103 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted From 192.168.1.103 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 0 received, +8 errors, 100% packet loss, time 2027ms Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maideen Posted January 3, 2006 Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 hi, My D-Link Airplus DWL 520+ PCI Wireless card DID NOT WORK well in Mandrake Linux v. 10.1. but after upgrading to Mandriva linux 2006. it work well. since my PC is a dual boot, I select option to pick driver from windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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