I'm using an old IBM ThinkPad with Sarge 3.1 r0a
Kernel: 2.6.8-2-386
Connecting to a Linksys router w/ 802.11b
essid broadcast: no
WEP: yes
DHCP: no

I've finaly gotten most of this to work (had to yank the winModem out to get the hardware detection to work) I think I just need a few details cleaned up.

ndiswrapper works, I can actually do things to wlan0 (stupid modem), but the wireless settings and address stuff is being a pain.

I put in the essid and key but it doesn't seem to want to connect to the AP.

In /etc/network/interfaces I copied all the stuff for eth0 (that works with the wired card) and pasted it lower down changing

iface eth0 inet static

to

iface wlan0 inet static

but these settings don't apply themselves, and for some reason I can't change the address (e.g. ifconfig wlan0 address 192.168.1.21).

I'm really not sure where to go from here.

Phoenix

I've got the dwl-g630 rev C2 working (WEP works, no WPA yet...) on an Ubuntu Hoary distro (both 2.6.10-i386 and 2.6.11-i686 kernels). I downloaded and compiled the most recent madwifi drivers (I didn't try ndiswrapper) (the rev C2 card uses the Atheros chipset). There's some good how-to's on the Madwifi site and the Ubuntu forums. The hardest part is copying the driver files to the correct location after it's compiled. After that, it's just a modprobe ath_pci, then ifconfig ath0 up, then dhclient ath0 (assuming you've set your essid and key via iwconfig already). I have to run all those as root. Good luck! Scott

Well, I finally got this thing to work. The key was to get the kernel source tree installed properly. I found a good explination for how to set it up. After that, compiling the madwifi drivers was a breeze.

For a while iwlist said the device did not support scanning, but this seemed to fix itself by the time I was posting here to ask about it. Weird.

Any way,

Good luck out there.