Re: Dlink DWL-G510: Never get hardware present message
[Sorry for previous off-list reply]
Hi Ed,
I say madwifi is 1) simpler and more 2) stable because:
1) Ndiswrapper needed kernel configuration & ndiswrapper config, madwifi
just needs kernel config (and "make install" in the madwifi directory).
Took me ages to get ndiswrapper running and when I finally tried madwifi
it worked first go. And I *only* used the instructions off:
http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/Distro/Debian
2) Ndiswrapper and this card kept dropping packets and intermittently
losing connection. With madwifi the box is rock solid.
Anyway, YMMV, good luck. All info is on the above linked page.
Regards,
Damien
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 23:47 -0700, Ed Young wrote:
> I have a Dlink DWL-G510 that works find under Windows XP (dual boot).
> I'm trying to get it to work with Debian 3.1r1.
>
> I'm following the instructions at
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Networking/ndiswrapper_on_Debian_Sarge_without_having_to_compile_anything
>
> After installing the wifi driver, the wifi card hardware doesn't seem
> to be detected.
>
> When running ndiswrapper -l I get
> Falcon:# ndiswrapper -l
> Installed ndis drivers:
> mrv8k51 driver present
>
> but I never get a line that says
> "hardware present"
>
>
> I installed the kernel image (2.6.8-2-686),
> ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.8-2-686, and wireless tools,
> ndiswrapper-utils.
> apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686
> apt-get install wireless-tools
> apt-get install ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.8-2-686
>
> all returned with no errors.
>
>
> When I ran ndiswrapper -i mrv8k51.inf I get
> Falcon:/home/ed/DWL-G510_NET/WinXP# ndiswrapper -i mrv8k51.inf
> Installing mrv8k51
> Parse error in inf. Unable to find section W8100PCI.zerocfg
> Parse error in inf. Unable to find section W8100PCI.zerocfg
> Parse error in inf. Unable to find section W8100PCI.zerocfg
>
> Falcon:/home/ed/DWL-G510_NET/WinXP# ndiswrapper -l
> Installed ndis drivers:
> mrv8k51 driver present
>
> at this point I have the /etc/ndiswrapper/mrv8k51 directory containing
> the inf, sys and conf files, so it looks good.
>
> modprobe ndiswrapper seems to work and the module is present.
>
> I never get the wlan0 interface to come up.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ed
>
>
>
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