I have installed a D-Link DWL-G520 ver B1. I pretty sure it's using athos chipset only because I have been able to install the Prisim2 driver and it doesn't work my card. I get an error that the devise is not responding and when it use the rc.wlan scrip that came with the driver, I get a modprobe error that there might be a problem with the IO or IRQ configuration.

I have installed the MadWiFi driver (for the athos chipset) but I get the same error. I feel that the MadWiFi driver is the correct driver because during the first boot up after installing the MadWiFi drivers, Konfigurator started it actually recognize the card as a generic athos card, however I could not configure the card because the driver wanted to use a eth0 and not wlan0.


Any help, please...I am so confused....I'm running around in circles from eth0->wlan0->ath0.




Thanks
Milton

It should actually want to use ath0, and at any rate you need an init script for it. Here's the FAQ page, where you can d/l one of those.

http://www.mattfoster.clara.co.uk/madwifi-faq.htm

Now, to get a good idea of how to help you more, sign in as root and show me the output of 'iwconfig'.

iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions

BTW: I'm sure my kernel is compiled for wireless LAN because menuconfig shows that wireless LAN is build in.

Thanks again
Milton


Edit:

Ok...I have recompiled the kernel with CONFIG_NET_RADIO=yes and CONFIG_NET_WIRLESS=yes (The kernel was originaly compiled with no entry for CONFIG_NET_WIRLESS). I have tried to reinstall the MadWiFi drivers however I get unresolved symbols for drives found in the unsupported directory. So I edited the Makefile to have depmod -q (to shut it up). Well, it shut it up however it didn't fix the problem. I still get an error that the device doesn't exist due to some IRQ problem when I modeprobe ath_pci (I modprobe wlan and ath_hal first). Please, I have run out of options, I need help.