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Old 11-16-2004, 03:59 AM   #16
Silber
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Hi there!

Got a DLink DWL-G520 and Suse 9.2Pro.

When booting, i get all kind of warnings that iwconfig this and that didnīt work, but when i open a console and type iwconfig ath0, everything seems somwhat okay.
The card is recognized, i can see the routers MAC-address. But the incoming signal seems to be too low.
When i try to use the router as DHCP server (it does work in XP), the rig gets no IP-address. When i configure the IP-address by hand, i still can see the routers MAC-address, but i canīt ping it, nor connect to the internet through it.

Havenīt installed anything additional. Just Suse 9.2Pro out of the box. Card configured via YAST.

This is more then i was able to get running before 9.2, but iīm still not really where i want to be.

Card is running, i can see router, but i canīt transmit data.

Any suggestions?

Greetings

Silber
 
Old 11-16-2004, 09:34 AM   #17
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Hello silber..


I also have a dlink DWL-G520 and Suse 9.2Pro

when I boot I don't get the iwconfig problem it does fail for the network and dhcp after trying to get an address...
I can also see my router and everything else but cannot get an ip address.
I used ndiswrapper and downloaded the latest xp driver from dlink site. I found that my card is trying to use ipv6 which I don't think will work; by typing in xterminal dmesg...
I am going to try to locate the config file to see if I can manually change the ipv6 stuff..
 
Old 11-16-2004, 10:57 AM   #18
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Belkin Wireless PCMCIA F5D7010 Broadcom chipset

Hi there,

for your list, this card does not (so far) work. This is with SUSE 9.2 Professional 'out of the box'.

The card is on the supported list of the WLAN drivers, but I have had no joy at all.

The same card in the same laptop works perfectly in winXP connecting to an excellent Netgear DG854G 54mbps wireless firewall/router.

I have just installed the same Professional SUSE package on a stand alone PC with a similar PCI Belkin Wireless card in it and that's a dud too!

Regards
Joe
 
Old 11-24-2004, 01:55 AM   #19
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Quote:
Originally posted by knightstepper
Hello silber..


I also have a dlink DWL-G520 and Suse 9.2Pro

when I boot I don't get the iwconfig problem it does fail for the network and dhcp after trying to get an address...
I can also see my router and everything else but cannot get an ip address.
I used ndiswrapper and downloaded the latest xp driver from dlink site. I found that my card is trying to use ipv6 which I don't think will work; by typing in xterminal dmesg...
I am going to try to locate the config file to see if I can manually change the ipv6 stuff..
I still get the warnings while booting, but then my card seems to "work".

I canīt get an ip address from the router. When i configure the Ip-adress manually, iwconfig tells me the MAC-address of the router, Network name, etc. etc. but i canīt really trasmit data (canīt ping the router).

The transmit signal level seems to be very low (about 10 dbm above Noise Level). Can you post your Signal level please?

Maybe iīll try to install the madwifi drivers any time soon and see what happens.

Greetings

Silber
 
Old 11-24-2004, 08:31 AM   #20
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I use a Netgear WG511T which has an Atheros chip (I believe the WG511 mentioned in a previous post uses a Prism chip). In SuSE 9.1 Pro, once I set my wireless network info through YaST and told the firewall to protect /dev/ath0, it worked just fine. I didn't need to install anything, SuSE installed the required drivers automatically (madwifi I think).
 
Old 01-15-2005, 10:28 AM   #21
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Wink SMC 2835W and Fedora 3

Hey my friends, I am kinda new to Linux. I am trying to set up SMC 2835W network adapter under Fedora COre 3. Does anyone know which Kernal version and which prism 54 patch I should get in order to install the adapter successfully?

I really need your help.!!
 
Old 08-25-2005, 07:42 AM   #22
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Thumbs up Dlink g650+ with SuSE 9.3 working fine

If you want your 650+ working....use ndiswrapper. The version that ships with SuSE 9.3 works
no problem once u load the appropriate Win driver.

as root:

ndiswrapper -i GPLUS.inf ( of course put the path to the driver in if U havent already)

The biggest bug bear for the 650+ is that SuSE 9.3 loads the acx_pci module for this card
on the fly... the link led lights up no problem. Good luck getting it to work with this module
though. To remove this module simply enter :

modprobe -r acx_pci

Now type the following:

ndiswrapper -m { this creates an alias for modprobe }
modprobe ndiswrapper { this loads the ndiswrapper with the GPLUS driver. Your
link LED will again light up}


This will assign the card to wlan0

Continue with:

iwconfig wlan0 essid (whatever yours is ) mode (Managed for me) channel (xxx) key

For the "key" part remember that if you are using simple digits as a string eg 12345 then u
must enter the key for WEP as :

key s:12345[1]

The [1] part refers to the key number that u are using e.g. if U are using key 2 on your
network replace [1] with [2].

To kick the card up to communicate with your gateway/accesspoint enter the following:

ifconfig wlan0 up xx.xx.xx.xx

Obviously the IP number listed here (xx.xx.xx.xx) should be replaced with the IP number of your system on the network. Remember you should also create a listing for the machine
in the /etc/hosts file (if not there already).

From here ping your router and see if u are alive. If you get ping returns then your
connection is good. Now to get to the outside world.

route add default gw xx.xx.xx.xx

Replace xx.xx.xx.xx with your gateway IP address. Remember too that u should have a listing
for your DNS servers for your provider in your /etc/resolv.conf file. These should be in the
form of :

nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

nameserver stays as "nameserver" dont change this too anything else.If they arent there
remember to edit as root.

Once you have issued the "route" command then try and ping the IP for one of your
nameserver(s).

All this following #$%@# I have put into a shell script which I run as root once the desktop has booted up. This is fine but its a pain in the rectum. I used to buggerize around with
Fedora Core 4 which by the way is exactly the same process - I did find somewhere once back
in the bowels of time some way of doing this at boot ( i think it was editing something in
/etc/proc but for the love of god I cant remember where it was....anyone could give me
some help here i will name my next born after u !!! )


Hope this has helped some poor lost soul out there.

 
  


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