pcmcia, wireless and the d-link dwl-g630

wanx · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 10

now, i read that this card is a real beast in linux, which had i known before deciding to install linux, i would have avoided.

cardctl doesn't seem to recognize it:

gnuageux · Veteran Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 1201

What type of card is it?
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fpipia · n00b Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 7

I've also bought this card and cannot let it work.

wanx, could you solve your problems? how?

As far as I know, the card is using a Marvell Galileo chipset, if it's of any help....

Thanks

wanx · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 10

i've still yet to get the NDIS Wrapper to even power up the card, much less attempt to engage any sort of wireless interface. the most intersting part is that ndiswrapper worked on my other partition's SuSE 9.1 Personal distro.

I don't really know what to make of it. I mean, it's the same program, right?

linuxant driverloader is also a no go

kevev · n00b Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 42 Location: Tejas

kernel 2.6.10-gentoo-r6
ndiswrapper 0.12-r3
Dlink DWL-G630 H/W Ver: C2 F/W Ver: 3.0
Dlink driver Version 3.00 9/30/2004

Instructions:

# emerge ndiswrapper

copy "ar5211.sys", "net5211.cat", "net5211.inf" from the "driver" folder in "dwlg630_driver_300.zip" file from dlink support site.

put the files in /root. (do not put them in a containing folder!)

# ndiswrapper -i /root/net5211.inf (ignore the errors "warning cannot locate")

# ndiswrapper -m

insert your wireless card

# modprobe ndiswrapper

if you driver works you can add;

ndiswrapper

to /modules.autoload.d/<kernelversion>

(Mine is /modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6)

Hope this helps someone. :wink:

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omega14 · n00b Joined: 09 Feb 2007 Posts: 2

at this step... things went wrong, could some one help me?

ndiswraper -m
module configuration already contains alias directive

modprobe ndiswrapper
FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.19-gentoo-r5/misc/ndiswrapper.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

dmesg
.....
....
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ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol wireless_send_event

so what is going on? im really lost this time...

Aquiles · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 9:42 am Post subject:

I also have that d-link card, and depending on the revision the chipset is diferent, so different people with different revisions may have different experiences.

I know that my card worked when I tried it on Ubuntu 6.10, but I can't get it working on Gentoo.
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