[clue-tech] No luck with D-Link DWL-G510: Any recommendations?

[Jeff Cann]

On Sunday 27 November 2005 7:11 pm, Ed Young wrote:
> I've been trying to get my Dlink DWL-G510 PCI card working with my
> Debian system with no luck.

Have you tried installing the Windoze driver onto debian using the ndiswrapper 
utility?  This is how I'm running a Linksys card.
 + http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

The wiki is particularly useful for installation.  My card was documented so 
installation and configuration was a snap:
 + http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page

I did a quick check of the installation notes and found your card.  It's #8 
under the 'D' section:

+ http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List#D

Card: D-Link DWL-G510

    * Chipset: Marvell W8300
    * pciid: 11ab:1fa6
    * Driver: 
http://www.asus.com.tw/support/download/item.aspx?ModelName=WL-138G
    * Driver: The asus driver hasn't worked for me. Instead, I used the WinXP 
driver on the CD. Its available at 
ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Wireless/dwlg510/Drivers/dwlg510_driver_100.zip
    * Other: Works with WEP and WPA with TKIP cipher. May need iwpriv wlan0 
ndis_reset when changing essid.
    * Other: Dlink driver has worked fairly stable on ndiswrapper 1.2 but is 
rock solid on ndiswrapper 1.5, at least for me. This was tested on Arch 
Linux, kernel 2.6.11 up to 2.6.14, SMP, PREEMPT, Pentium3, default stack 
settings. ndiswrapper 1.4 OOPses and locks hard, unstable, even with 
uniprocessor kernel. Only WEP was tested. 

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