set up for USB Wireless DWL-120+

Darkstar_Surfer · 11-24-2009, 02:46 PM

Hi, I am very new to Linux and have a old PC set to dual boot Ubunto ver 9.10. I have a wireless USB dongle, a D-Link DWL-120+, that I need to get working so I can stop running 50M of Cat 5e round the house, down the stairs etc.

Can some one please help.

I typed
LSUSB

Bus 003 Device 002: 2001:3b01 D-Link Corp. [hex] WLAN Boot Device

What next?

nimnull22 · 11-24-2009, 02:58 PM

Next, plug your dongle into computer and from root concole:

dmesg | tail

ifconfig

Post outputs here, please.

Darkstar_Surfer · 11-24-2009, 03:16 PM

home@home-desktop:~$ dmesg | tail
[ 52.524652] glxinfo:1703 freeing invalid memtype d0272000-d0282000
[ 52.524660] glxinfo:1703 freeing invalid memtype d0282000-d0292000
[ 52.524668] glxinfo:1703 freeing invalid memtype d0292000-d02a2000
[ 52.524676] glxinfo:1703 freeing invalid memtype d02a2000-d02b2000
[ 52.524684] glxinfo:1703 freeing invalid memtype d02b2000-d02c2000
[ 52.524692] glxinfo:1703 freeing invalid memtype d02c2000-d02d2000
[ 52.524701] glxinfo:1703 freeing invalid memtype d02d2000-d02e2000
[ 52.524709] glxinfo:1703 freeing invalid memtype d02e2000-d02f2000
[ 52.524717] glxinfo:1703 freeing invalid memtype d02f2000-d0302000
[ 92.617300] ondemand governor failed, too long transition latency of HW, fallback to performance governor
home@home-desktop:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:2f:25:cf:28
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:17

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:2f:25:db:64
inet addr:192.168.1.69 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::211:2fff:fe25:db64/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10786 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:11206 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:8732767 (8.7 MB) TX bytes:1646819 (1.6 MB)
Interrupt:21 Base address:0xc000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

nimnull22 · 11-24-2009, 03:20 PM

Next:

iwconfig

Please.

And tell please, as well, what NetworkManager says about wireless connection?

Darkstar_Surfer · 11-24-2009, 03:22 PM

home@home-desktop:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 no wireless extensions.

I can not find a NetworkManager, Network Connection or Network Tools is all I can see.

Darkstar_Surfer · 11-24-2009, 03:30 PM

Editing Wireless Connection 1

SSID Backwater
Mode Ad-hoc

Bssid
MAC address
MTU Automatic

nimnull22 · 11-24-2009, 03:37 PM

Do please from root console

hwinfo --usb

but , post here only part about your wireless, do not post all of its output, please.

Darkstar_Surfer · 11-24-2009, 03:48 PM

I can't see anything that is wireless

I only found these two

73: None 00.0: 10701 Ethernet
[Created at net.124]
Unique ID: usDW.ndpeucax6V1
Parent ID: rBUF.ku_pZL9tQC3
SysFS ID: /class/net/eth0
SysFS Device Link: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.0/0000:01:04.0
Hardware Class: network interface
Model: "Ethernet network interface"
Driver: "skge"
Driver Modules: "skge"
Device File: eth0
HW Address: 00:11:2f:25:cf:28
Link detected: no
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #30 (Ethernet controller)

74: None 01.0: 10701 Ethernet
[Created at net.124]
Unique ID: L2Ua.ndpeucax6V1
Parent ID: JNkJ.rDRqBOJ4Sq1
SysFS ID: /class/net/eth1
SysFS Device Link: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0
Hardware Class: network interface
Model: "Ethernet network interface"
Driver: "forcedeth"
Driver Modules: "forcedeth"
Device File: eth1
HW Address: 00:11:2f:25:db:64
Link detected: yes
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #23 (Ethernet controller)

Is there a way to capture to a file as I can't scroll back far enough to see full response.

nimnull22 · 11-24-2009, 03:52 PM

type "hwinfo --usb" - it is one command, type it without " "

Darkstar_Surfer · 11-24-2009, 04:07 PM

Yip, that is exactly what I typed. Tried it again and same problem, too much data.

When I first tried it did say it was not installed and told me how to and followed its instructions.

Darkstar_Surfer · 11-24-2009, 04:10 PM

Sorry did not notice the double -, i.e. --

12: USB 00.0: 0000 Unclassified device
[Created at usb.122]
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_2001_3b01_noserial_if0
Unique ID: mZxt.xdv__uFiE03
Parent ID: uIhY.kllrQr_lFX9
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0
SysFS BusID: 3-2:1.0
Hardware Class: unknown
Model: "D-Link Unclassified device"
Hotplug: USB
Vendor: usb 0x2001 "D-Link"
Device: usb 0x3b01
Revision: "1.01"
Speed: 12 Mbps
Module Alias: "usb:v2001p3B01d0101dc02dsc06dpFFic00isc00ip00"
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #7 (Hub)

nimnull22 · 11-24-2009, 04:15 PM

12: USB 00.0: 0000 Unclassified device
[Created at usb.122]
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_2001_3b01_noserial_if0
Unique ID: mZxt.xdv__uFiE03
Parent ID: uIhY.kllrQr_lFX9
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0
SysFS BusID: 3-2:1.0
Hardware Class: unknown
Model: "D-Link Unclassified device"

That means, that you need to find a driver for your dongle. Ubuntu 9.10 doesn't have one.
Try to search through Google "ubuntu DWL-120".
Hope you will find many information.

Darkstar_Surfer · 11-24-2009, 04:36 PM

OK I found

Open Source Linux driver for wireless network cards (DWL-[G]520+ PCI, DWL-[G]650+ CardBus, GL-2422MP mini-PCI, DWL-120+ USB etc.) which use the entirely undocumented Texas Instruments (TI) ACX100/ACX111 chips, for 2.4.x to 2.6.x kernels. FreeBSD: see htt

downloadable from http://sourceforge.net/projects/acx100/files/

Is this a good idea?

nimnull22 · 11-24-2009, 04:46 PM

And these pages as well.

http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page
http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/ACX

If you will have question, ask here.

Darkstar_Surfer · 11-24-2009, 05:00 PM

This seems to imply it is all there

Quote:

Ubuntu ships the ACX plain driver out of the box, even though it is not included in the mainline kernel. The driver is made available under the linux-image-`uname -r` package, and the firmware under the linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r` package.

The source code for the driver can be found in the appropriate tree for each release at the Ubuntu kernel git repository. This location has been changing throughout releases, so the link to the source code of each particular release has been added to each appropriate section.

From Feisty onwards, NetworkManager was included in the main distribution. Since the ACX driver cannot interface correctly with it, NetworkManager might have to be disabled. See the instructions on how to disable it in the Feisty section of this document

.