Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 08:58:31PM -0700, Ed Young wrote:Thanks again! Now I just need to get my Dlink DWL-G510 WiFi card working and all my dreams will have come true...Check the chipset: do an lspci and report back to the list what it outputs. If it's an Atheros, support is fairly good. If it's a TI acx*, you may have to work harder, but it's still feasible. You will almost certainly need to load (non-DFSG free) software from the Windows driver disk for either of the above.
Note that the Atheros chipset is supported by the madwifi driver (see http://madwifi.org). It's a native linux driver, so no Windows pieces are needed. It's not a free driver - there's a binary blob required to talk to the hardware, but it does work reasonably well. I have one in my T41p, so I have to use this driver.
There is a project to develop a completely free driver for Atheros, but I don't know what state it's in.
Jerry Quinn