I use the Fedora Core 2 distro, DWL-G630 802.11g pcmcia adapter, and DI-524 802.11g router.

There are no linux drivers available for my card, so I tryed using NDIS wrapper. I used the windows XP drivers included on the DWL-G630 CD, TNET1130.inf.

I followed the instructions at linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20040507104718960

When I dmesg, I do not see what I am supposed to, which is:
divert: allocating divert_blk for wlan0
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:90:96:68:6e:67 using driver TNET1130.sys

When I run /sbin/iwconfig, I see this:

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

I do not see any entry for wlan0.

When I run neat (/usr/bin/system-config-network), I see the wireless connection with status inactive, and I see the hardware as ndiswrapper with status configured, which is correct, but when I try to activate the wireless connection, I get a message that says:

interface 'wlan0' not found
interface 'wlan0' not found
interface 'wlan0' not found
ndiswrapper device wlan0 does not seem to be present, delaying initiation.

And that's as far as I can get.

Also, when I boot it trys to start wlan0, but again, gives the same message as above.

Please try to figure this out, I've searched everywhere and can't find a way to fix it.

One last thing that may be helpful, when I execute: ndiswrapper -l
It shows the driver I installed with -i, but does not say that any device is present.

I don't get any lights coming on when I plug in the card. I guess that the problem is the my system just isn't detecting the hardware, but I don't know why.

Hi,

I don't believe that your card is truly a tnet1130, which is a Texas Instruments' acx111 device. Instead, I think it's a Marvell chipset.

Perhaps D-link has an updated, corrected windows driver on their site that will have the correct inf file for you to use with ndiswrapper. This would not be the first time D-link put the wrong windows' driver on the cd that comes in the box. Even they are starting to get confused when it comes to their unfortunate taste in model naming/numbering. (don't get me started

To see of your card is a tnet1130, run lspci -n as root with the card plugged in, if you see 104c:9066 in the output somewhere, then it *is* indeed a tnet1130 and I am wrong, if you don't see 104c:9066, then it's not an acx111 (tnet1130) but most likely a Marvell.

The 104c is the vendor ID (TI), and the 9066 is the model (tnet1130)

I have 2 of these cards, one from D-Link (dwl-g650+) and one from Trendnet (tew-421pc), your model number doesn't look like a tnet1130.

OK, thanks for the advice, but unfortunately, lspci -n does return 104c:9066. I have no idea how to get this to work. Is their a way for me to get the inteface wlan0 to be recognized by the system?

hmm, well d-link is at it again. what version of ndiswrapper are you using?, I'll compile it and try also with fedora 2.

akaBeaVis,
The version is 0.7. I got the ndiswrapper to show tnet1130 present now, it didn't show present before, but the not detecting wlan0 problem still persists.

I have had some good success with 0.10, and cvs from time to time, I did not have success with 0.11 or 0.12, but .10 was good. I should also mention that there's a totally open source native linux driver for these cards at acx100.sourceforge.net, and that's what I normally use with mine. The catch is that WEP support is not yet completed for the acx111's.

btw, what kernel version (uname -r) are you running w/fedora2: 2.6.5, 2.6.7 or 2.6.8? also, what does your gcc --version say?

I actually decided I would do a full update just to make sure that doesn't fix things, the kernel was 2.6.5, gcc was 3.3.3. There is a linux driver? Mine isn't acx111 is it? Mine is TNET1130, or are you saying that they are compatible with TNET1130? I'll try getting ndiswrapper 0.10.

Yes, they are the same: tnetw1130 = acx111. The true positive ID is from lspci -n , 104c:9066, which tells me the open source linux driver will work with your device. You can see the README on the download page here: http://rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de/~andi/acx100/
and the latest (which I'm using), is: acx100-0.2.0pre8_plus_fixes_43.tar.bz2

Thanks so much for the help! I had no idea that there was a native linux driver, and I don't use WEP, so it's perfect. I'll probably keep trying to get ndiswrapper to work just so I can prove that I can do it, but thanks, for now I'll use the linux driver.

I've got a revision B1 of the D-link AirPlus DWL-G630

It is a pcmcia card.

I was estatic when ubuntu recognized it as a wlan card, and put it up as wlan0.

I made sure that the mac-address is allowed in my router, and restarted it for that to take effect.

I entered my wep key into the network config section, and told it DHCP.

It didn't take. NO ERROR MESSAGES

UBUNTU GIVES NO ERROR MESSAGES.

I've been trying all kinds of things, and this just hasn't been working.

NO ERROR MESSAGES MEANS THAT ITS WORKING...
but it's not..

I keep trying. I installed ndiswrapper-gtk something or other. I downloaded the revisionB drivers for the card from dlink. I extracted them. I located the windows XP .inf file and that gtk tool says that the hardware is present!

IT DIDN"T CHANGE ANYTHING..
I rebooted...

still no error messages.. and no network over wlan0
I'm about ready to get rid of ubuntu, kubuntu might work, kde developers generally communicate errors a little bit better.

I'm going to try knoppix 5.01 off my cd.

cry with me please.