Dlink DWL-G510 and ndiswrapper - not working

[Dan Williams]

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

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