Dlink DWL-G510 and ndiswrapper - not working

Steven Stern subscribed-lists at sterndata.com
Sun May 15 16:09:33 UTC 2005


Axel Thimm wrote:
> 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
>>
> 
> 

Thanks very much to you and Dan.

-- 

    Steve




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