I originally bought a Linksys card to do wireless on a new Linux install, but that was a miserable failure. I did some research and the Dlink DWL-520 (not "+") seemed like a good card to use, so I bought one.

I installed it, and actually did a full, clean install of Mandrake 9.2, and the card is recognized as a Prism 2.5, but the install of the driver fails with the msg:

"insmod'ing odule orinoco_pci failed at /usr/lib/libDrakX/modules.pm line 61"

Going into expert mode, the failure is:

"Found Harris Semiconductor|Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset network/main interfaces Do you have another one?"

(What THIS msg means is lost on me, and it's not written properly, missing a period). It gives me the options to respond "Yes," "No," or "See hardware info". I selected hardware info, and the "orinoco_pci" line again identifies the Prism-based card, but no other info.

I tried entering advanced options (i.e., IRQ and IO Addr), but that too failed in the same way. dmesg shows "Orinoco/Prism2 PCI device at 00:10.0, mem:0xF4102000 to 0xF4102FFF -> 0xd090f000, irq:10" I have to say, aside from the IRQ listing, I don't know what to do with this information.

One more piece of the puzzle, dmesg ALSO shows "PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:06.0". I, once again, don't know what this means, but would like to.

I'm a newbie at this, and I certainly don't know where to go from here.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Brats

Brats,
I decided to post here since this message thread doesn't have so much clutter in it.

I am using the 2.6.0 kernel which contains a driver for Prism 2.5 PCI 802.11b cards. To enable it you have to go to drivers/network/wireless and include Wireless LAN drivers, Hermes chipset 802.11b support (Orinoco/Prism2/Symbol), and then under that Prism 2.5 PCI 802.11 support.

I compiled the support directly into the kernel so I am not sure what the module names are but when I boot up it shows the orinoco_pci driver detecting my Prism 2.5 chipset and sets up the device as eth1. Then I just simply have to bring up the device with ifconfig and configure it with iwconfig and then run dhcpcd on it, which I have my start up scripts take care of.

I wish there was some trick I could tell you but it all just worked for me once I had the kernel compiled.

Have you tried using the stuff in the 2.6 kernel?

I did ask a friend of mine and he said with the newest linux-wlan-ng driver (0.2.1-pre-16) he got the same card I have working without a problem under the 2.4.22 kernel as well but I have no direct experience with that method. I'll ping him and see if I can't get him on here to offer any advice or assistance he has.

John

Smart move, the other thread I started terribly and led to a lot of "clutter"...Mandrake 9.2 DOES recognize the driver, orinoco_pci, but fails to use it for my installation and card. That's my problem.Yeah, that's how it seems to go, either it works, or it doesn't and it's not clear why.Nope, and I don't have a clue how to install that kernel. It's even harder given I have no internet access with this box. But I could burn CDs, where do I get the kernel and the build instructions?That'd be great, thanks. I think this kernel knows, "out of the box," how to support this chipset. But for no reason I understand it's not working, with the errors reported earlier. I don't get them, nor how to work around them. The driver EXISTS, and should ID the card, but isn't. Confusion ensues...

Thanks,

Brats

Are you having the error where the orinoco_pci driver detects the card as a Prism 2.5 card but a "Failed To Initialize Card" or something to that effect comes up? If so your problem might be that your dlink card actually has a realtek chipset on it emulating a Prism 2.5 (and poorly at that). I have seen a reference to that issue on posts on other message boards dealing with that dlink card.

Hi, I've been having the same problems as bratwurst has had with D-link DWL-520+.

I imagine the run-me-through might help for you, and may answer some of my problems as well.

package acx100-utils-0.2.0. "Texas Instruments" (you might look for prism2 Utilities package)


Step 1. enable CONFIG_NET_RADIO (My problem is locating it, (/[dir]/[dir;filename]) also
CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS

Step 2. Installing package: wireless-tools (first time it installed, but thus installing now, it
wont install and compile: ie "make install"?)

Step 3. Installation of firmware. (Installation of Windows drivers with .zip file and
cp Win2000/WLANGEN.BIN Win2000/RADIO0d.BIN Win2000/RADIO11.BIN firmware/

(firmware into what directory? , (/etc/firmware/ ?)

Step 4. Make shure acx100_pci.o is installed in firmare; (ie. make extract_firmware ?)

Anything else needs to be considered? Can someone help me with my current problem?