D-Link DWL-G630

[mdweezer]

This is a 802.11G card, at the moment i'm just using it to connect to B networks.

Is it possible to set this card up in linux? I've heard lots of the G cards arn't supported yet.

Thanks all!

[randy]

I'm not sure if there's a native Linux Driver. The last dlink card I had didn't but I could get it to work with the ndiswrapper driver.

[Starwoid]

I think your g630 uses the Atheros chipset, like my g650? You'll have to check this.

If you, Ubuntu picked up my g650 during installation, and installed the right driver. If not, just hunt around for the madwifi driver (google search on madwifi) and this will do the trick.

If you want to connect to a 'g' network, you'll need wpa. This isn't part of the driver at the moment unfortunately, so you'll need a handy separate program called 'wpa_supplicant'... again a google search will find it for you. Read the doc's carefully before running it, you have to setup its config file carefully. Once this is working, and you are connected to your network, its quite easy to put the startup of wpa_supplicant into your linux startup scripts, so it starts on bootup.

I have my dlink g650 pcmcia card connected to my wpa psk airport extreme basestation, and it works quite nicely.

Hope this helps

[mccan]

I got this card to work by doing the expert install. It saw the card (something like acx111) and I selected it (though it did not load during install, perhaps selecting it got kernel support installed?). When prompted I downloaded all of the Ubuntu updates. I downloaded and unzipped the latest XP driver from the d-link website (using unzip at the command line). Then using synaptic I downloaded the ndiswrapper and following instructions to install (something like -i for install and -m for write configuration). I was then able to click on the computer/system configuration/network menu item and added wlan0. I had to use a hex wap key (not ascii -- 128bit worked).

Good luck!

David

[zombie1991]

This is all I did to get it to work this evening. I had wireless already with an older linksys card. The WPC11 v2.5. To get that one working all I did was change one number in /etc/pcmcia/config . I did a cardctl info and got my manfid. There was one one number off. I changed 0x1613 to 0x1612. Rebooted and set up my card. That was sweet.

To get this one going I installed ndiswrapper from repository. I copied the xp drivers folder from the cd to my hard drive. cd'd to location, typed ndiswrapper -i (name of driver).inf . typed ndiswrapper -m. It said adding alias to wlan0 and to something else. Typed ndiswrapper -hotplug (not sure if I should have but I did). Then typed modprobe wlan0. Went to network settings after lights started flashing on the card and set it up. It's working now but I have yet to turn it off or reboot. I added ndiswrapper to /etc/modules in the hopes that that will start it up next time I reboot.

Forgot to mention. I do not have the wpa stuff installed and I haven't tried to transfer files from computer to computer so I'm not sure if I'm at 54 or 11. iwconfig says 54. I hope it is.



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I just reinstalled and tested my method for the G630. You do NOT have to type:
ndiswrapper -hotplug

as it does nothing. It worked as I said though for the rest. Copy the drivers ndiswrapper -i (driver).inf
ndiswrapper -m
modprobe wlan0
then set it up in networking options.

[eyephisc]

Ubuntu is great! I have this same card. Question: is it bad for any reason to start wpa_supplicant and the ndiswrapper module on startup even if you don't have the card installed?

Thanks!

[MEW]

I have the same card, and I got it working fine using zombie1991's instructions (Thanks). Then, I couldn't get it to work again after I restarted. If I run ndiswrapper -l to list installed drivers, it lists mrv8k51.inf and says "hardware NOT present".

Figuring that If it would work once, it would work again, I uninstalled the ndiswrapper driver (ndiswrapper -e mrv8k51.inf) and removed the wlan0 alias line from the modprobe configuration. I then tried to reinstall the driver (ndiswrapper -i then -m, then modprobe wlan0), and it still doesn't work.

Does anyone have any ideas?

[syrnick]

Originally Posted by zombie1991 ============================================ I just reinstalled and tested my method for the G630. You do NOT have to type: ndiswrapper -hotplug as it does nothing. It worked as I said though for the rest. Copy the drivers ndiswrapper -i (driver).inf ndiswrapper -m modprobe wlan0 then set it up in networking options.

Cool. That really works! Thanks.

Alex.
P.S.: I have DWL-G630 revB.

[darkbane]

I'm having tons of issues with my network card. I'm using ndiswrapper and following the steps that I've see on tons of websites now, but I still can't get it to work. I'm using dwl-g630 rev C. Which driver is everybody else using. I've tried win98, 2k and xp drivers, nothing seems to work. I keep getting an invalid driver error when I do a list in ndiswrapper.

I'd appreciate any help you guys have to offer.

thanx

db

[peacemaker885]

I got this card working using madwifi drivers:

1. Downloaded and compiled latest cvs:
cvs -z3 -dserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/madwifi \
co madwifi

2. modprobe ath_pci

3. dowloaded and compiled wpa_supplicant enabling these:
# Driver interface for madwifi driver
CONFIG_DRIVER_MADWIFI=y
# Change include directories to match with the local setup
CFLAGS += -I../MadWifi/madwifi --->change this!

4. Created wpa_supplicant config file:
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant # for wpa_cli support

network={
ssid="myssid"
psk="mypasskey"
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
proto=WPA
}

5. Created a script home-wifi.sh:
ifconfig ath0 up
wpa_supplicant -Dmadwifi -iath0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -bb

6. Get ip via dhcp:
dhclient ath0

If everything goes ok, change "-bb" in home-wifi script to "-B"

Hope this helps.