cannot connect with DLink DWL-G630

w_geek · 02-19-2005, 02:10 PM

I have a Dlink Airplus DWL-G630 wireless card and Dlink DI-524 wireless router. I have installed fedora core 3 and installed the win XP drivers for the wireless card using ndiswrapper 1.0.
The problem is ..i do c an interface wlan0 with my card spec and im able to scan the AP using "iwlist wlan0 scan" . But im not getting an IP assigned to my card. I have everything going in the card except an IP . Dhclient wlan0 fails.

Can anyone help me with this?

if u need more details i can provide too.

darkleaf · 02-19-2005, 03:03 PM

Did you first set the essid before you ran dhclient? It might be worth checking out if dhcpcd works. dhclient didn't work for me but dhcpcd did. If all fails you can also set a static address.

w_geek · 02-19-2005, 09:09 PM

the thing is i when i try to set the essid using iwconfig as my network name ,linux freezes i donno why.

i did install dhcpd rpm but is there something in particular that i have to set in the dhcp.conf for wireless?

darkleaf · 02-20-2005, 02:20 AM

If you can't set the essid I don't think dhcp will know which access point to connect to. Is everything latest version?

w_geek · 02-21-2005, 11:55 AM

i donno why this is happening ... when i set the essid using the command iwconfig to my network name ,linux freezes .. has this happend to anyone using FC3 and dlink airplus DWLG630 card?

darkleaf · 02-21-2005, 02:11 PM

Are you using the latest version of ndiswrapper and wireless-tools?

w_geek · 02-22-2005, 07:40 PM

the ndiswrapper is the version 1.0 and iwtools is the one with FC3 installation disk.

tormented_one · 02-22-2005, 08:12 PM

I had the same problem with FC2, eventually got ndis and madwifi to work. Did you modprobe ndiswrapper? Did you bind it to the pciid? What is the output of ndiswrapper -l? Driver and Hardware both present? With the dwl-630 you HAVE to bind it to the pciid with ndiswrapper. Can you get madwifi from cvs and use that? Mad wifi works 10x better for this card. Get mad wifi and make, make install, modprobe ath_pci, do iwconfig ath0 options....ie essid enc etc, dhcpcd ath0. That should get you online. If oyu insist on using ndiswrapper I will help if I can

w_geek · 02-24-2005, 08:18 PM

how do i bind it to the pciid? can u tell me the steps?

tormented_one · 02-24-2005, 11:36 PM

you have to do ndiswrapper -d <pciid>
do a lspci -v find the card there will be a number like 00:14.3 to the left of the info about card. Write that number down, then lspci -n find the number you wrote down(ie 00:14.3) in the left column and then there will be a number like 168c:0001 (after class, before revision) that is the pciid number. just ndiswrapper -d <pciid> (no <>). you must do this as root.