I'm using SUSE 10.1 and I've installed ndiswrapper and installed the windows drivers from the cd for my dlink usb wireless adapter. Everything appears to be working. I can access my routers configuration page, I get an IP address with correct ESSID and KDE WiFiManager says signal strength is 100%. I can do everything except connect to the internet. The output of 'iwlist wlan0 scan' looks like this:

Cell 01 - Address: 00:09:5B:39:B7:4C
ESSID:"default"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Quality:0/100 Signal level:-50 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Encryption keyff
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0

As you can see, Quality is 0/100, which probably isn't good. There's also and entry for Cell 02 which has the same info, though I don't know where it came from since I only set up one. It's probably something simple, but I can't figure it out. Any ideas?

Could you print out a output of ifconfig wlan0? If you can talk to your router, the net connection itself seems to be okay. Can other computers on your network connect to the net? If so, you might need to set the gateway or dns servers manually.

Sure it's not a firewall issue?

Anyway, doesn't that card have an rt2500 chipset? What're you doing messing around with ndiswrapper?

ifconfig wlan0:

wlan0
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:46:E8:22:4D
inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::213:46ff:fee8:224d/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1579 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:19 errors:0 dropped:2 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:241719 (236.0 Kb) TX bytes:2280 (2.2 Kb)

I can't find the rt2500/2570 module on any of the 10.1 discs. I don't know if this is a firewall issue but I don't have any trouble connecting wirelessly to the internet with my iBook or with ethernet on my linux box.

Have you seen this:
http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/in...=15183&hl=g122

I followed this guide to get my D-Link DWL-G122 to work under SuSE 9.3.
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Hi, I just wanted to post a procedure on how to get the DWL-G122 working under SUSE 9.3 PRO. I am fairly new to Linux, so feel free to correct me if you find a mistake. Note that I'm experiencing random disconnection problems, and occasional hangs AND I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE ANY HELP IN THIS AREA. Therefore, the following procedure is to get you card working with these glitches. (I am using WEP HEX Shared Key encryption, maybe that's why.... I have not tried to fiddle with the encryption settings too much)

0. First of all make sure you remove your wireless adapter using YAST. In other words, make sure no previous configuration of the wireless adapter exists before following this procedure.

1. Use YAST to install ndiswrapper. You don't need to install the sources.

2. Once ndiswrapperis installed, insert your D-Link CD or download the drivers from the D-Link Site

3. Open a command shell and type su (superuser) and type in the password you assigned to the root user.

4. Using the cd command, navigate to where the .inf files reside. In case you are using the D-Link CD, type cd /media and then use dir to navigate to the Drivers until you find the inf file and the sys file under the same directory

5. Once in the inf file directory type ndiswrapper -i NAMEOFINFFILE.INF where NAMEOFINFFILE is the of your driver

6. Check the driver was properly installed by typing ndiswrap -l You should see that the driver is installed and the hardware is present.

7. Once you checked the driver was installed, type ndiswrapper -m to write to the modprobe configuration file.

8. type modprobe ndiswrapper This will initialize the ndis wrapper. You can now close the command shell

9. Now, go to the network devices administrator in YAST. Add a new device and under module name type in ndiswrapper The type (the dropdown box at the top left area of the dialog) should be set to wireless so the wizard will give you wireless network setup options. I left the checkboxes at the bottom (usb and the other I can't remember) unchecked.

10. Click Next and provide the info needed to connect to your wireless network. Maybe after this ste restarting might not be needed but I did it anyways and the next time I started up my usb DWL-G122 was working. I do get system hangups and random disconnections. I have kinternet running so I have no idea if that might be causing the problem.

Hope this helps some people.
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You should use KInternet and the "on cable connect" option in yast. Right click, dial, hang up, dial. Now your DSN should be correct.

Here it is:
http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/in...=26391&hl=g122

Hi

im using suse 10.1 and the same adapter as you, i got errors using the inf and sys files of the xp install directory. However, when i used the windows 98 inf and sys files, it all worked perfect. Try these files from the install cd. It should go well.
BTW, the two cell thingy, one is probably 802.11b and the other is 802.11g, its not an error, its normal as u'r router might except different types of signal.

Also, after modprobe, I did the following

iwlist wlan0 scan
ifconfig wlan0 essid your_essid
ifconfig wlan0 up
dhcpcd wlan0 &

insert your essid where it says your_essid (obviously :')

lnxmomo