RE: PCI Wireless NIC question.
No + made sure of that when ordering. I'll try iwconfig. In any case I'm
thinking about sending it back and getting another one does any one know of
a cheap pci wireless NIC that has good driver support?
-----Original Message-----
From: Arnt Karlsen [mailto:arnt@c2i.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 10:36 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: PCI Wireless NIC question.
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 08:03:50 -0700,
"Percival, Ray" <Ray.Percival@Summit.Fiserv.com> wrote in message
<[🔎] 7B2F6EA5E35E214882CB9828962BC3CF0310111A@corvallis.summit.fiserv.com>:
> I recently decided to go wireless at home. I bought a Dlink dwl-520
..'DWL-520' or 'DWL-520+' ??? That damned "+" makes one _hell_ of a
difference, it uses an ACX-100 chip, details in http://acx100.sf.net/
> thinking it was a prisim2 chipset. Well it turned out that when I got
> it it is not a prisim2 but rather a realtek.
>
> No problem they seem to have drivers.
..competence problem, on the part of the part of the chip maker,
D-Link promised a linux driver "in a month or 3" a year ago, and
they have given up TI, if it is the "+" you're talking about.
>
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloads1-3.aspx?software=True&compamod
> el=RTL8180L#2002121Unix%20(Linux)
>
> So after looking at the drivers and playing with the Makefile for a
> bit I get them to compile well. Insmod well and the driver shows up
> when I do lsmod. I then did this.
>
> ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.4 netmask 255.255.255.0
> ifconfig wlan0 up
> route add default gateway 192.168.1.1
..huh??? 'lsmod && uname -a'???
> ifconfig shows wlan0 as up and all looks well. When I attempt to ping
> 192.168.1.1 I get no response and after playing with it for some time
> I notice that everytime I try to ping out the wlan0 that the loopback
> interface's tx and rx are incrementing. I have confirmed that there is
> a route for 192.168.1.0 using wlan0 as it's interface and when I down
> wlan0 I get hardware errors when trying to ping 192.168.1.1 just like
> I would expect with a wired card.
>
> I'm at wits end and have read everything I can find and none of it
> seems to be working. Also just as a another datum pump -i wlan0 fails
> also.
>
> Thanks for any help.
..play with 'iwconfig --help', 'man|info iwconfig'.
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