i've been searching everywhere for 2 days now and i still can't find out how to get this card to work.

like the title says, it's the D-link DWL 520 (revision E) and i'm using mandrake 10. i'm new to linux, so i can't figure this out on my own and came here for help.

basically i click wireless connection, and select any driver (which one??) and nothing works. help

any advice or a step by step howto to get this piece working would be greatly appreciated.

Ok starting with the basics ... Please post the output of

dmesg|grep eth
lspci -vv|grep Eth
ifconfig -a

To do this, you need to open a terminal window or give thse commands from the Console (Ctrl+Alt+F1)

outputs nothing at all

says command not found

also says command not found



thanks for your reply

edit: i did install all 3 cds for mandrake, so why these commands aren't there is strange. yes i typed them right

I am sorry... should have asked you to run those commands as root.

Moved: This thread is more suitable in Wireless Networking and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

oh ok. thanks for moving it. i didn't know there was a section for wireless.

i switched to root, and lspci still wasn't found. but then i installed the pciutils package and now it works. but i still don't get any output for that and dmsg.

here:

[root@localhost john]# dmesg|grep eth

[root@localhost john]# lspci -vv|grep Eth

[root@localhost john]# ifconfig -a

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:167 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:167 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:12474 (12.1 Kb) TX bytes:12474 (12.1 Kb)

sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 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)

[root@localhost john]#

you guys think i should try out the ndiswrapper trick? or should i get it to work with a linux driver?

the former seems to be a quick 'band aid' fix, so i'm hesitant to try it.

still can't get it working.

i tried using ndiswrapper, but then running iwconfig gives me something like wlan0: device not found.

anybody?
i know this card will work under linux ...

You have the same card as I have and the same problem, only I have Red Hat and I've given up on getting the card to work, here is my tread about it:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=219258