LinuxQuestions.org HCL - DWL-G630

kdogksu · 02-15-2005, 12:38 AM

This card has been nothing but a pain for me. It has no native Linux drivers. I attempted to install it with ndiswrapper, using the net5211 driver on the CD. Ndiswrapper discovers it and acts as though it is enabled, but I can never bring the interface up. It refuses to detect any wireless network. I would steer clear of this card.

mi6 · 05-09-2005, 10:18 PM

I downloaded madwifi drivers, followed the instructions and had wifi up and running with 128 bit WEP in under 15 minutes!

Code:

/sbin/cardctl ident
Socket 0:
  product info: "Atheros Communications, Inc.", "AR5001-0000-0000", "Wireless LAN Reference Card", "00"
  manfid: 0x0271, 0x0012
  function: 6 (network)

Works quite well for the price!

kaz2100 · 05-13-2005, 02:00 PM

DWL-G630 Ver:C2 F/W ver:3.00 on Toshiba Stellite 1415-S173.

Followed previous post, madwifi driver + pcmcia-cs-3.2.8, card recognized without any trouble.

Then, I tried to follow "Linux wireless LAN" in the forum, which did not work with my disribution of Slackware.
Following is what I did.

/etc/rc.d/rc.wireless ath0
dhcpcd -k <- to kill wired network through eth0
dhcpcd -d -t 10 ath0
lynx www.linuxquestions.org

I have not succeded with Debian (Woody Kernel 2.4.20), b/c hotplug does not work.

nardis_miles · 08-16-2005, 01:29 PM

Install was very quick. I installed 2.6.10 with the recommended extensions, downloaded the cvs from madwifi and followed their instructions. I was up immediately

after iwconfig

ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"linksys"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:12:17:E3:3E:C5
Bit Rate:36 Mb/s Tx-Power:18 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:FB8E-4193-4C Security mode:restricted
Power Management:off
Link Quality=42/94 Signal level=-53 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:2 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

So far no problems!

vasudevadas · 02-07-2008, 05:26 PM

Works perfectly. Ubuntu detected it and had the correct driver ready right out of the box. All I had to do was add the following line to my /etc/network/interfaces file:

Code:

auto ra0
iface ra0 inet dhcp
        wireless-essid <wireless network name>

fschmeisser · 07-06-2008, 03:49 PM

This card has an Atheros chipset for which madwifi has the drivers, no need to use ndiswrapper.
On my old IBM Thinkpad T20 the PCLinuxOS Live cd recognized the card and installed the appropriate driver, and had my WPA connection established as soon as I entered the passphrase.
I highly recommend this card.