Problems With Wireless Dual Boot D-Link DWA-130

[nickdlc]

Hi.

I was so happy when I bought my D-Link DIR-615 Wireless Router and DWA-130 USB Adapter and actually got it working by following instructions on the forums.

Then I decided to Dual Boot my computer with windows XP and now wireless internet only works with windows XP and not Ubuntu. I've tried reinstalling ndiswrapper and the drivers but this has not worked.

I am not sure why the wireless internet works with windows but not with ubuntu, i've searched the forums but nothing seems to work.

This is what I get when I type some commands in the Terminal:

nick@Ubuntu:~$ ndiswrapper -l
rt2870 : driver installed
device (07D1:3C13) present

nick@Ubuntu:~$ sudo lshw -C Network
[sudo] password for nick:
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 13
bus info: pci@0000:00:13.0
logical name: eth0
version: 10
serial: 00:20:ed:6e:29:35
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 duplex=full ip=192.168.0.198 latency=32 link=yes maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 module=8139too multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
*-network
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:21:91:23:0f:a1
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ndiswrapper+rt2870 driverversion=1.45+Ralink Technology, Corp.,01 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g

nick@Ubuntu:~$ dmesg | grep -e ndis -e wlan
[ 40.496011] ndiswrapper version 1.45 loaded (smp=yes)
[ 41.341585] ndiswrapper: driver rt2870 (Ralink Technology, Corp.,01/31/2008, 1.01.01.0000) loaded
[ 43.849068] wlan0: ethernet device 00:21:91:23:0f:a1 using NDIS driver: rt2870, version: 0x0, NDIS version: 0x500, vendor: 'IEEE 802.11n Wireless Card.', 07D1:3C13.F.conf
[ 43.849117] wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
[ 43.849159] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
[ 46.302193] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 443.555698] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 507.426620] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 517.419871] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 565.259080] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 643.200535] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready

nick@Ubuntu:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:ED:6E:29:35
inet addr:192.168.0.198 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::220:edff:fe6e:2935/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2968 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2941 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2644687 (2.5 MB) TX bytes:543889 (531.1 KB)
Interrupt:17 Base address:0x8f00

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:158 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:158 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:12363 (12.0 KB) TX bytes:12363 (12.0 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:91:23:0F:A1
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:168 (168.0 b)

wlan0:ava Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:91:23:0F:A1
inet addr:169.254.5.14 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

nick@Ubuntu:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSIDff/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

It would be great if you guys could help me out as this is really annoying me and I've been able to solve all problems in the past by just searching the forums, but i just can't figure this one out!

[nickdlc]

No one can help me out? I've tried millions of different things and it's driving me crazy.

Thanks

[arialys]

The drivers on the DWA-130 cd do not work with ndiswrapper for some reason. You need to go to the D-Link website and get their drivers. Easily Googleable. You will see that it will ask for your specific version of the device just make sure you have the right one for the right driver, it will give you a zip file. Open that zip, grab the XP driver for whichever you have 64 bit or 32 bit and then wrap that and you should be wonderful again.

Took me a week to figure this out, hope you haven't given up hope on linux yet.