Making a D-Link DWA-525 Wireless N card work under OpenSuse 11.3

The card was not recognized by yast2 after installation, but lspci shows:

cpe-72-130-188-113:/home/dorman/sys/Dlink_DWA-525/2010_07_16_RT3062_Linux_STA_v2.4.0.0 # lspc
01:08.0 Network controller: RaLink Device 3060

among other things, of course.

I then generally followed the thread started by "Fass" http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1045703

but getting the driver rt3060 rather than rt2860, and using the RaLink address
http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2

and retrieving the code for RT3060.

There are a few "GOTCHAs". The file with estension .bz2 seems to be a plain zip file,
Unzipping this produces a tar file.

The extension of the tar file is actually tar. (trailing character is a period (.))!

Edit config.mk, adding y to
# Support Wpa_Supplicant
HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=y

# Support Native WpaSupplicant for Network Manager
HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=y

cd ../..



cpe-72-130-188-113:/home/dorman/sys/Dlink_DWA-525/2010_07_16_RT3062_Linux_STA_v2.4.0.0

sudo su
make && make install

makes and installs the driver.

lsmod |grep 3562
rt3562sta 889313 1


iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

ra0 Ralink STA ESSID:"" Nickname:"RT3562STA"
Mode:Auto Frequency=2.412 GHz Bit Rate=1 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Link Quality=10/100 Signal level:0 dBm Noise level:0 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

cpe-72-130-188-113:/home/dorman/sys/Dlink_DWA-525/2010_07_16_RT3062_Linux_STA_v2.4.0.0 #

I used yast2 to configure the D-Link DWA-525, which shows up as "RaLink WLAN controller", scanning for the
Netgear WGT624 v3 wireless port and accepting the Hex passcode. But the link does not work.

Then I configured yast2 Network Devices > Network Settings > Global Options (tab) to User Controlled with Networkmanager

Finally, to make the wireless work, after each boot, I have to run knetworkmanager as a user (not root).

This asks for the kwallet password, and then produces:
dorman@cpe-72-130-188-113:/home/dorman/sys/Dlink_DWA-525/2010_07_16_RT3062_Linux_STA_v2.4.0.0> knetworkmanager

Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)


QLayout: Attempting to add QLayout "" to InterfaceConnectionItem "", which already has a layout
dorman@cpe-72-130-188-113:/home/dorman/sys/Dlink_DWA-525/2010_07_16_RT3062_Linux_STA_v2.4.0.0> Object::disconnect: Unexpected null parameter

However, the wireless connection now works..
And running iwconfig shows:`
#iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

ra0 Ralink STA ESSID:"Julian" Nickname:"RT3562STA"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:14:6C:3B:3E:3A
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:9882-E492-7A
Link Quality=100/100 Signal level:-39 dBm Noise level:-69 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth0 no wireless extensions.

The motherboard has a broadcom wired port which works if enabled using yast2.


Historical note: Before buying this card, I worked a while with a D-Link DWL-G520M.
Using ndiswrapper under OpenSuse 11.1 and 11.3 I could make it work on 2 out of 3 systems.
Windows vista has no driver for this card. The whole thing is a bit fragile.

Post Script:
2010 11 25
After a couple months of use, I find that the wireless link is OK for casual surfing,
but not for system updates. I have used Yast2 and zypper. I have tried using
the suse mirror redirector as well as selecting a mirror manually. In all cases,
the process times out while updating the repository information. Sigh.
lmd

Post-post script.
2012 12 27
I learned that the firmware in my netgear WGT624v3 was old and the
radio button in the admin browser was not in fact checking for
updates. After updating the firmware the wifi performance of the
router became "perfect".

Also, support for the 3060 chip has been integrated into the linux
3.1 kernel, which is used in Suse 12.1, although bugs remained until 3.1.3, not yet released. The driver is rt2800pci.

The board and driver communicate reliably with my Netgear router now,
although there problems in bringing up the link automatically and storing
the wifi keyword in the keyring/wallet. I think that this is a problem with
NetworkManager/nm-applet rather than the device driver.

Now using
uname -a
Linux linux-odnj 3.1.0-1.4-default #1 SMP Thu Nov 3 14:45:45 UTC 2011 (187dde0) i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

Also, support for the 3060 chip has been integrated into the linux
3.1 kernel, which is used in Suse 12.1, although bugs remained until 3.1.3, not yet released. The driver is rt2800pci.

The board and driver communicate reliably with my Netgear router now,
although there problems in bringing up the link automatically and storing
the wifi keyword in the keyring/wallet. I think that this is a problem with
NetworkManager/nm-applet rather than the device driver.

Now using
uname -a
Linux linux-odnj 3.1.0-1.4-default #1 SMP Thu Nov 3 14:45:45 UTC 2011 (187dde0) i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux