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Setting up wireless networking in Linux [Edit: I am victorious!)

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drag

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I am pretty sure that the modules that your using just don't support that card yet.

Not 100% sure, but pretty sure.


Anyways, if you can take back the card do it. Get a Prism54-based card.

see here for compatability charts

These are the ones I know about. The company that originally made the chipset (since sold it to another company) had the forsight to actually make GPL'd versions of the the drivers.

Now those weren't that hot, but since then those prism54.org fellows have improved them and so on and so forth. When I used them they were still beta, but worked ok. Since then they've been accepted into the mainstream kernel since 2.6.5. Since then they are capable of (depending on the specific card) monitor mode, ad-hoc mode(peer to peer), Master mode (used to create wireless bridges, otherwise known as wireless access points), and Auto.

The only queer thing about these drivers is that they need to have a "firmware" thing installed. A closed-source bit of code needed to talk with the specific hardware. In order to do that you either extract it from Windows drivers or download the firmware off of the internet. Then you need to have hotplug firmware support in the kernel and have hotplug system installed on your computer. (commonly used for USB autodetection and stuff like that.)

The model loads, the Hotplug system uses the hotplug config to find and load the firmware and your off.

Plus they are 802.11g (the faster version) + 802.11b capable. Some are even 802.11a capable, but that is mostly not used.

I had a Cardbus and a PCI version, I used the PCI version for the WAP and the PCMCIA was for my laptop.

I bought them specificly because the company made GPL'd drivers and it paid off.
 

Chaotic42

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Well, there are lots of sites that say it works.

It's a Dlink DWL-G520 Rev-B

Apparently getting the stuff from CVS may help, so I'm off to install some Windows CVS program to get the files. :)

Edit: I got WinCVS to work. I needed Python.

Damned kniggits. ;)
 

drag

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I got it. PM your e-mail address I'll mail it to you. It's 1.5megs compressed (hope got it all, I am not to hot with CVS stuff.)