Make the wireless working with DWA-525 Ralink5360

[row225]

Hi

I'am using ubuntu12.04 LTS on an Acer-Veriton desktop and i have been struggling the whole week digging and trying to find a way to make my wireless card (D-link DWA-525) work, but unsuccessfully i've been through quiete a lot of post on how to install it on previous version of Ubuntu and some method of make it work but i cant still get it work.

if any new solution different from those on google please let me know.

Thanks

[mebomechanicno1]

I regret I have never ever managed to get a wireless adaptor card to work, but people say it is possible, and I suggest you start by reading this article

http://steveswinsburg.wordpress.com/...-ubuntu-10-04/

[kurt18947]

Here's a link to a pretty good site to wireless driver information. This ain't gonna be simple. Note this is for rev_A2.

http://www.wikidevi.com/wiki/D-Link_DWA-525_rev_A2

If you want to develop knowledge, you can work to get your internal card working. If you just want your wireless to work, you might consider a nano USB adapter that is known to work. I'm using one of these on a Thinkpad with a built-in G speed Wifi:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...pf_rd_i=507846

with the realtek driver. The driver that comes integral with Ubuntu recognizes the adapter but will not connect. The driver from Realtek includes an install script that seems quite reliable, you just have to know how to run a bash script.

Upon further research, you might have another alternative. I looked at Dlink's drivers. There are Windows drivers that include .cat .inf & .sys files in the drivers folder. You could download these and try using NDISwrapper. The software center should have it and the GUI front-end. If you're using 32 bit Ubuntu you'd need 32 bit WindowsXP/2K drivers, Ubuntu64 needs 64 bit WinXP drivers. Win Vista/Win7 drivers generally don't work. You're fortunate that Dlink uses this driver style; many vendors just give an .exe file which will not work with NDIS wrapper. I'm not a fan of NDISwapper; if it doesn't work I've had it mess up an install big-time but at least Dlink has the correct Windows driver format to be able to use it.

[row225]

I regret I have never ever managed to get a wireless adaptor card to work, but people say it is possible, and I suggest you start by reading this article

http://steveswinsburg.wordpress.com/...-ubuntu-10-04/

yeah ,i did read this article and tried unsuccessfully. thanks

[row225]

Here's a link to a pretty good site to wireless driver information. This ain't gonna be simple. Note this is for rev_A2.

http://www.wikidevi.com/wiki/D-Link_DWA-525_rev_A2

If you want to develop knowledge, you can work to get your internal card working. If you just want your wireless to work, you might consider a nano USB adapter that is known to work. I'm using one of these on a Thinkpad with a built-in G speed Wifi:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...pf_rd_i=507846

with the realtek driver. The driver that comes integral with Ubuntu recognizes the adapter but will not connect. The driver from Realtek includes an install script that seems quite reliable, you just have to know how to run a bash script.

Upon further research, you might have another alternative. I looked at Dlink's drivers. There are Windows drivers that include .cat .inf & .sys files in the drivers folder. You could download these and try using NDISwrapper. The software center should have it and the GUI front-end. If you're using 32 bit Ubuntu you'd need 32 bit WindowsXP/2K drivers, Ubuntu64 needs 64 bit WinXP drivers. Win Vista/Win7 drivers generally don't work. You're fortunate that Dlink uses this driver style; many vendors just give an .exe file which will not work with NDIS wrapper. I'm not a fan of NDISwapper; if it doesn't work I've had it mess up an install big-time but at least Dlink has the correct Windows driver format to be able to use it.

indeed, it is the A2 version that's why its bothering so much, i will try the cross-install with the windows drivers and see if its work, the thing is ,the Desktop am using is for the department and they are all using this wi-fi adapter on win 7, i installed Linux because i need it to make NS2 work properly and do some simulations (am doing some research on WSN)
thanks i will let you know how it goes.

[jdldeauna]

Hi row225 any luck installing the wireless adapter? I'm going through similar difficulties. Thanks.

[row225]

Hi row225 any luck installing the wireless adapter? I'm going through similar difficulties. Thanks.

Unfortunately ,i've tried the ndiswrapper command to install the driver from the inf file for windows. but that was unsuccessful.
the driver has been installed correctly but when you list to see if its working , an error message tells you that its not the correct driver! when i just copied the files from the Driver-Disk.
guess i have to find a usb modem stick to use until i find a solution

[kurt18947]

Unfortunately ,i've tried the ndiswrapper command to install the driver from the inf file for windows. but that was unsuccessful.
the driver has been installed correctly but when you list to see if its working , an error message tells you that its not the correct driver! when i just copied the files from the Driver-Disk.
guess i have to find a usb modem stick to use until i find a solution

That is in part why I'm not much of a fan of NDISwrapper. Do you know if the drivers on the CD are 32 bit or 64 bit? As far as I know, if you have 64 bit Linux you must use 64 bit Windows drivers with NDISwapper. I wonder if the drivers on the CD were 32 bit and you have 64 bit? Other than that, I'm pretty hopeless with NDISwrapper.

[Wild Man]

Hi, please post the output of:

cat /etc/lsb-release; uname -a
lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
lsusb
iwconfig
rfkill list all
lsmod

by clicking on new reply and click # then paste the information between the brackets.
Thank you

[Bufeu]

Also, the output of ifconfig and route -n should be helpful.