Dlink DWL-G510 and ndiswrapper - not working

[Axel Thimm]

On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 05:18:34PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> 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

There are also packages for FC4t3 and rawhide under

	  http://atrpms.net/dist/fc4/madwifi/

ATrpms is officially tracking rawhide since FC4t3 :)

Currently packages for 1286, 1287, 1290 are up and for 1303 are being
uploaded.

If you point to the fc4 repo, you can use

yum install madwifi-kmdl-`uname -r` madwifi

and you'll have the bits installed.

> 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
> 

-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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