On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 00:11 +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > I have a wireless card Dlink DWG 510 PCI card. > lspci gives: > RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11g > I tried to use google to find some help to get it to work, but I did not > find anything I can use. Most of the help I found was for other distro, > not Debian, and I was not able to sort it out for my machine. If anyone > has got that card to work under Debian, I would appreciate to share > their experience > Thanks > Thierry > > This is a wireless card. I use DWL-G520 cards with the atheros chip and madwifi drivers. I don't see what chip you have. So although I don't have direct experience with your card, I'll try to get you started.
Without knowing which chip the G510 uses, I'd try to use ndiswrapper. I'll try to describe what this involves. Once you get the right packages installed you can use man to get more information. Or maybe a kind expert will fix my errors. First get your card's driver. Here' a link to it's drivers. There are several drivers, so chose carefully. http://www.dlink.com/products/support.asp?pid=308#drivers You can use the appropriate driver with ndiswrapper to get the card recognized by the kernel. ndiswrapper will wrap the windows driver so that the kernel can see the card through a linux module. The card will eventually show up as wlan0, I think, with a corresponding module that will have to be loaded just like the other interfaces. To get ndiswrapper for your architecture do apt-get update apt-cache search ndis apt-get install "module for your architecture" You probably need ndiswrapper-utils apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils You will probably also need wireless-tools apt-get install wireless-tools. To see how all this works in debian do man interfaces man wireless Bonne chance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
