DWL-G510 Rev. A

Chipset is not Atheros!!

I am on my windows partition using the wireless.. i have no cords( if necessary ).

Here is the problem. Now, Ubuntu 6.06 has ndiswrapper-utils built in, so it will work and what not.

Now, ndiswrapper says to use windows xp drivers, one problem, I get segment faults with mine. I even tried using 98, 2k, and ME.. No segment faults, but the card doesn't appear in iwconfig or ifconfig.

ndiswrapper -l brings up:
mrv8k51 driver present, hardware present

So far so good.
ndiswrapper -m
modprobe mrv8k
modprobe ndiswrapper

REASON: If I do ndiswrapper first, it freezes.

I do that, but then I do iwconfig, everything, lo, sit0, and eth0 comes up, no wireless extensions. ifconfig brings up information about eth0.

Maybe someone can explain why this is doing that?

I remember when I was setting up this card on my desktop that when I would do modprobe ndiswrapper it would freeze the entire system.

After I downgraded to an earlier version of ndiswrapper it worked quite well without freezing.

But before you do that did you try running 'depmod -a' or 'depmod ndiswrapper'

Also take a look at the output from 'dmesg' after doing modprobe.

How do I look at the output?

type 'dmesg' in a terminal.

If you don't want all the rest of it.

before you do modprobe type 'dmesg -c' this will spit out all the stuff in dmesg and clear it so that the next time you type 'dmesg' you only get the mesages that have occured after you cleared them.