dwl-g630 ANY DISTRO!?!?!?
Hi folks. let me start by saying that i had this wireless card (dlink dwl-g630) working for a while under knoppix 3.8 hd install. i am beyond ticked off at the fact that it failed after a reboot a few days ago and i have not been able to recover it since. knoppix using ndiswrapper on the live cd states that the driver is invalid....what crap. i have since dl'd knoppix 3.9 and guess what....same friggin result. invalid driver. i even downloaded the driver again to see if it might have been corrupted. no dice. i tried mepis yet again and it says that it was properly installed. however, i can't get mepis to work wirelessly to save my life. i need the config tools under knoppix. that was the only way i got it to work before.
under ANY distro other than knoppix, i can't see a wlan0. mepis has only a sit0....whatever. i can follow ndiswrapper wikis to the letter but not get this thing to work. ideally, if i could figure out what i need and how to setup the 802.11g via the cli, i would go back to gentoo or mepis i think. however, i have no clue where to go from here. google isn't bringing me much since i'm running out of ideas for search strings and i have yet to see anyone address the no wlan0. now i know i can't be the only one suffering from this issue. nonetheless, any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA |
So at what point do you get stuck? During the installation or is it afterwards with configuring your settings? Can you also tell which steps you did before?
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since knoppix is the only distro so far that has wlan0 listed when i do a iwconfig i have been sticking with it. although, the 3.9 that just came out actually lists it as ath0. regardless, i follow the wiki for ndiswrapper but when i type 'ndiswrapper -l' it tells me that the driver is invalid. at this point i stop becuase going any further yields nothing to fix it.
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Can you check which driver knoppix uses and is it the same one? If you go to the ndiswrapper supported cards list do you have the driver that's listed there?
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You can find the drivers in /etc/ndiswrapper/drivername btw. Maybe it works copying them from knoppix there and moving them to your new distro.
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For what it's worth, I've gotten that card working under MEPIS, but it was a pain in the ass (don't even remember how I finally got it working now), and I still have problems getting and staying connected. Its latest bad habit seems to be that it will successfully connect but then I can't ping anything, then after a while of fiddling with it it'll just start working all on its own.
Run - don't walk - to the nearest computer store and get anything other than a D-Link! ;-) |
i seem to recall that it was supported but even still, I had it working for three weeks! I'm contemplating getting a netgear wg511t since i hear that it has support OOTB. I think it might be worth the money and save on headaches.
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Try using a d-link dwl-g520 wireless card on knoppix 3.9. I spent less than five minutes setting it up to get on the internet after installing knoppix(hard disk install). It uses a atheros chipset which is a driver that is included in knoppix.
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No talking about other cards here!
There are 3 distinct versions of this card.
I have revision B. http://pastebin.ca/87681 My firmware revision!!! doesn't work well apperantly. check your dmesg when in doubt. |
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