D-Link DWL-G630 and FC8.

Steven Stern subscribed-lists at sterndata.com
Tue Nov 20 21:01:24 UTC 2007


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On 11/20/2007 02:39 PM, Chris Norman wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 14:32 -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
> On 11/20/2007 01:50 PM, Chris Norman wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> Will a D-Link DWL-G630 work under Fedora core 8?
>>>>
>>>> Will I need anything extra to work it?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers.
>>>>
>>>>
> If it's like my DWL-520, it will almost work out of the box with F8.  I
> disabled the OpenHAL drivers and installed MadWifi to get the 520 fully
> functional.
> 
>> How did you disable the OpenHAL drivers?
> 
> 
>>

I added this to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist:

  # built-in Atheros driver
  blacklist ath5k

After rebooting and installing madwifi (I compile from source), I used
"modprobe ath_pci" to get the kernel to notice the new drivers, then
rebooted again.

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  Steve
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