D-link DWL-G650 wireless card in debian
 

I have a d-link DWL-G260 wireless network card. It is not the plus(+). I have a debian based distribution on a laptop called Bonzai linux. I would like to get the laptop to use the card and am having no luck with the CVS download of the madwifi drivers. When make is run I get a "entering an unknown directorymake: leaving an unknown directorymake." This error appearse no ideo twice as well as other errors. I tried to follow along with the instructions using the EXPORTs they used but no change. I have no idea what to do next. The card is said to work on this site using the madwifi drivers. Any help is appricated.

Tahnks,
Jarin Scott

Here's an update on the problem.By some creative measures I found the card to be revision B. On the Madwifi front, I created a directory in /lib/modules/2.4.20-bf2.4 called build. This got rid of the directorymake errors. Now the make gives errors when it enters the following directories: "madwifi/wlan" and "madwifi/drivers. The error appears when it enters /lib/modules/2.4.20-bf2.4/build and the error is "***No rule to make target 'modules'. stop.***." Bulid did not exist in the directories added later. Also another error is uudecode is not found, which is required in the madwifi/ath_hal directory. Will try to get uudecode on the computer, and will try make again.

Thanks,
Jarin Scott

Good news and bad news for me. I installed uudecode and it got pass oone error and the others keep popping up. More good news I found the error and I almost know how to fix it. The bad news is I need to install the kernel source which appentlly don't exist on my mini distro. Will keep looking but it does not seem likely I will find the kernel source. Will any problems be encountered if I build a new kernel.

Thanks,
Jarin Scott

More news. I downloaded a 2.4.26 kernel and did a make oldconfig and make deb and make clean. The kernel complied cleanlly with make bzImage. I found information on the web about the next steps which said to move bzImage to /boot and to move the system-map to boot. Then it said to symlink the kernel system-map to System-map. I then proceeded to install the kernel in lilo. I beliveve this is done correctly. When I reboot the computer and sellect the new kernel, it says loading new-kernel gives a handful of dots and reboots.
More information is avilable upon request, and to mention again I am doingthis because I need the Kernel source code to install my d-link wireless card, and the source code for my kernel does not exist.

Thanks,
Jarin Scott

More info. 2.4.26 kernel failed to install any modules, so I downloaded and installed 2.4.20. Everything went fine untill the make modules_install. At this point I gat a depmod error somewhere around the pcmcia point. The kernel boots has a bunch of modules installed but I believe the pcmcia slot is not installed properlly. When I pluged the card into 2.4.20-bf2.4 lights would flash. Now the card is dead, no lights. Cardinfo gives a "nopcmcia devices in /proc/devices." will rerun make modules_install and write down the error.

Thanks,
Jarin Scott

I am getting the following errors as I try to install some pcmcia modules, " depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/kernel/drivers/net/wan/comx.o." I am fairly certain that this is the same error I got during the make modules_install phase. What is the cause of this. Was it a problem during the configuration of the kernel?

Thanks,
Jarin Scott

Well, I'am at a lost. I knew it would be troublesome, but this is unbelieveable. I download the madwifi package try a make and recieve errors. I look into it and find I need a symlink to my kernel sources which I can't get for the 2.4.20-bf2.4 kernel that bonzai uses. Next I try to install 2.4.26 kernel and it fails on the make modules. Then iit was 2.4.20 Kernel. Everything went fine up to make modules_install where I got a depmod error, same as above. The system boots the new kernel and it seems to work fine, but I haven't checked everything. It seems that the pcmcia modules aren't installed and I can't seem to install them. What can be done to get the pcmcia drivers. Should I try to install the pcmcia drivers from a package. Some help would be appricated.

Thanks,
Jarin Scott

Well, I am going to recompile the kernel without PCMCIA support and install the drivers separtly and see if that gives me PCMCIA support. It's been two weeks and I still can't get the card working. Maybe this will work but most likely it won't.

Jarin Scott

If anyone is interested I got the PCMCIA slots working and I managed to get the card working, I think. I recompiled the kernel manually, not using the make oldconfig as I was doing it. It paid atension to the PCMCIA stuff, which I never saw the other way, and I must have installed the correct setting for after waiting several hours and rebooting the new kernel the PCMCIA slots were detected. I plugged in the card and compiled the drivers. finally loading them. I tried to DHCP and saw the card, ATH0, I belive but no address was found. It could have been the network was down, which is what I was told.

Jarin Scott

here is how i did it

http://www.ituprising.com/howto/dlink_dwlg650.html