Re: Dlink DWL-G510 and ndiswrapper - not working

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Axel Thimm wrote:
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 05:18:34PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:

On Sat, 14 May 2005, Steven Stern wrote:

Dan Williams wrote:

On Sat, 14 May 2005, Steven Stern wrote:

Arjan van de Ven wrote:

On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 10:03 -0500, Steven Stern wrote:

I've followed the standard recipe for installing ndiswrapper and activating the D-Link DWL G510 card.

you're probably better of not using ndiswrapper.. kernel people might
actually care about bugs you report then :)

I'd love to not use it, but I can't find anything that tells me how to use the existing wireless network card without it. If you have any useful suggestions, I'm interested.

Is it a G510 revision A, or a G510 revision B?

It's a Revision B.

Revision B cards appear to use the Atheros chipset, which has drivers for linux that work quite well:

http://madwifi.sf.net

The drivers there you'll have to compile yourself, since they are not in the kernel (and won't be, since they use some non-open-source binary bits).

Alternatively, you could grab an RPM and rebuild the RPM (since the kernel module must match the running kernel):

http://dl.atrpms.net/production/sources/fedora-3-i386/atrpms/madwifi-0.9.4.12-16.rhfc3.at.src.rpm


There are also packages for FC4t3 and rawhide under

	  http://atrpms.net/dist/fc4/madwifi/

ATrpms is officially tracking rawhide since FC4t3 :)

Currently packages for 1286, 1287, 1290 are up and for 1303 are being
uploaded.

If you point to the fc4 repo, you can use

yum install madwifi-kmdl-`uname -r` madwifi

and you'll have the bits installed.


As root, do:

1) rpm -Uhv /path/to/madwifi-0.9.4.12-16.rhfc3.at.src.rpm
2) cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
3) rpmbuild -ba madwifi.spec
4) cd ../RPMS/i386
5) rpm -Uhv madwifi*.rpm

Reboot.

Dan




Thanks very much to you and Dan.

--

   Steve


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