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This card is one of the DWL-520 family. It uses the realtek RTL8180L chipset. Realtek does provide linux drivers for this chipset, but till now they only provide drivers for kernel 2.4.18 and 2.4.20. Since they don't provide source code, we can't recompile it in other kernels. The drivers can be downloaded here: http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...&Software=True
In order to use it in different kernels, we have to use ndiswrapper and the xp driver. I installed it in slackware 10 and debian sarge 3.1. For slackware check out my post here. It's almost the same in debian, except the automation part is much easier. Just add these lines to /etc/network/interfaces
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $40.00 | Rating: 10
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.10-5-386
Distribution:
Ubuntu 5.04
I searched High and low trying to find a way to get this driver working under linux, after going through several distrobutions, I finally found a very nice stable debian based distrobution called Ubuntu. Anyway, I used a driver found here: http://rtl8180-sa2400.sourceforge.net/ And after following the instructions, i compiled the driver, which compiled flawlessly... then went right to the ubunto networking config, and set up my network with complete ease.
After all the hours i put into trying ndiswrapper or the realtek drivers from there website, finding these drivers made me wish i knew about them before i started... i recommend to anyone with this d-link card, to try those drivers, it works better then the standard ones from windows
Distribution: windows xp home, windows 98, red hat 9, fedora core 3, redhat enterprise linux, win2000 pro/server
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $20.00 | Rating: 5
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.9
Distribution:
fedora core 3
well the device worked fine for me using ndiswrapper, i was able to go wireless quite well actually
the one main problem was that if anything interrupted your signal and you got disconnected, it wouldnt reconnect at all, even if you tried to get it to manually reconnect, still nothing, so it was unusable for me with the 2.4ghz phones in my house
so yea, ndiswrapper and fedora core 3.. worked quite well, i am gonna try ubuntu with the stuff above and see what happens
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