DWL-520 ?

arnaudsj · n00b Joined: 13 Aug 2004 Posts: 34

Hi,

Is there any solution to get a Dlink DWL-520 PCI to run under AMD64? I just saw that hostap was not available on amd64. Any ideas on how to get a Prism2 based card running with what's available?

Thanks!

Sébastien

Jlagreen · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 11:03 pm Post subject:

I would like to know that aswell, really no one knows or tried?

I already tried 3 LiveCDs:

Gentoo, Suse and Ubuntu

and with all the same result, I can load the prism2_usb module but the adapter neither appears in ifconfig nor in iwconfig :cry:

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ronmon · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 11:47 pm Post subject:

I only run mine on an x86 router box, but I poked around in menuconfig on my amd64 machine. Under Wireless LAN, if you enable Hermes there is an experimental driver for Prism 2.5 PCi cards. It might be worth a try.
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Jlagreen · Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 2:18 pm Post subject:

ok, I think I got to do a GRP Install then afterwards installing the adapter

--> I think it doesnt matter if I use GRP or Stage1, does it? because the GRP is also optimizied für AMD64 it's same, am I right?

--> my Intention was to have a Stage1 but I think I can live with a Stage3 + GRP
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arnaudsj · n00b Joined: 13 Aug 2004 Posts: 34

titaniumlou · n00b Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 8

Hey Jlagreen did you have any success with this at all?

Jlagreen · Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 9:45 pm Post subject:

no I havent yet and I have now a DWL-122 WLAN USB Adapter

I bought it cuz it has a Prism2 chip that should be supported, but the funny thing ist that USB WLAN is
completely unsupported

I tried the linux-wlan-ng and though the emerge doesnt error and modprobe prism2_usb aswell,
the wlan script still refuses to find my adapter ...

--> with x86 it worked flawlessly this way at first try

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titaniumlou · n00b Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 8

FWIW, I got my DWL-520 RevE card working with Gentoo on AMD64. I'm working right now on getting a startup script so it will automatically come up after a reboot.

You can find pretty good instructions on getting the card manually up & running from this URL:
http://home.columbus.rr.com/andrewbarr/linux/dwl520e1.html

Let me know if you run into any snags and I'll try to help out...

unlocked · n00b Joined: 24 Oct 2004 Posts: 53 Location: Austin, Tx.

I use hostap 0.3.7 on amd64. It's setup as a bridged ethernet access point to my local lan.
I just made a overlay dir and added ~amd64 to the overlay ebuilds.
And got it setup to load the AP firmware after the module loads.

lspci -v
Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01)
Subsystem: D-Link System Inc DWL-520 Wireless PCI Adapter, Rev E1

* net-wireless/hostap-driver
Latest version available: 0.3.7
Latest version installed: 0.3.7
Size of downloaded files: 1,483 kB
Homepage: http://hostap.epitest.fi
Description: HostAP wireless drivers
License: GPL-2

* net-wireless/hostap-utils
Latest version available: 0.3.7
Latest version installed: 0.3.7
Size of downloaded files: 58 kB
Homepage: http://hostap.epitest.fi/
Description: HostAP wireless utils
License: GPL-2

* net-wireless/hostapd
Latest version available: 0.3.7
Latest version installed: 0.3.7
Size of downloaded files: 1,790 kB
Homepage: http://hostap.epitest.fi
Description: HostAP wireless daemon
License: GPL-2
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titaniumlou · n00b Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 8

That's encouraging, thanks unlocked.

Quick question though, I've added these lines to my /etc/portage/package.keywords in order to have the packages unmasked but it still says that they are masked when I run "emerge -s hostap"

net-wireles/hostapd
net-wireles/hostap-driver
net-wireless/hostap-utils

It might also be worth mentioning that in my portage tree I have ebuild files for hostap-driver-0.3.7 as well as 0.2.6 and one other, same for hostapd and hostap-utils...

Thanks!