Gentoo and D-Link DWL-G630 via PCMCIA

faux · n00b Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 61 Location: Linz, Austria

Hi!

I have a D-Link DWL-G630 wireless card in the PCMCIA slot of my laptop and want to connect to an AP through this card. I read that I should use the madwifi driver and installed it, but neither ifconfig nor iwconfig display this card; only eth0 (which is the wired PCMCIA network adapter) is shown. I manually loaded the madwifi module ath_pci, but the ethernet device is not listed.
I think it is not a PCMCIA problem, because I use a network connection through my PCMCIA wired network adapter.
What kernel features (or modules) are required to use my D-Link DWL-G630? I've configured my kernel as minimal as possible, maybe I forgot a feature.

Regards,
Manuel Faux

danomac · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 3:48 pm Post subject:

I have this same card. I remember when I got it I had to look for Revision C as Rev B/A used a different chip and wouldn't work with madwifi.

faux · n00b Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 61 Location: Linz, Austria

Hm... I have revision E2.
Did you get yours to work?

danomac · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:41 pm Post subject:

Yes, I emerged the madwifi drivers, then wpa_supplicant with the madwifi USE flag. I had no problems actually, it associated to my WAP right away. After you loaded the module, did you check for any error messages in /var/log/messages or dmesg? Maybe the module doesn't recognize your card.

faux · n00b Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 61 Location: Linz, Austria

Thank's for your response, but I just took another wireless card: Problem solved.