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D-Link Wireless LAN on SUSE 10
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2006-01-20, 09:34 PM (This post was last modified: 2006-01-20, 09:35 PM by hybrid.)

Following on from this post (yes, it was successful), I am now trying to help a friend set up his wireless network on SUSE Linux 10 on an IBM Thinkpad. Having never done any wireless network stuff before (don't have a laptop), I don't know what to do to get the card to work. I have searched around and heard of ndiswrapper, but I have no idea how this works/how to set it up. I have also been doing extensive Googling to no avail.

 

Judging by the problems anyweb had with SUSE 10, I don't think I can do this myself.

 

The card is a PCMCIA D-Link DWL-G650+ AirPlusG+ CardBus Wireless LAN and it works perfectly on Windows XP. I have tried removing and adding the card from YaST2's LAN module numerous times with different settings to no avail. The card doesn't even light up in Linux. Here is the result of ifconfig:

 



Code:
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0A:E4:3A:51:73              inet6 addr: fe80::20a:e4ff:fe3a:5173/64 Scope:Link            UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1            RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0            TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000             RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
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:98 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0            TX packets:98 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0            collisions:0 txqueuelen:0             RX bytes:7478 (7.3 Kb)  TX bytes:7478 (7.3 Kb)




 

Any help on this would be a great help, and thanks in advance.

 

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2006-01-22, 04:26 PM
Does anyone have any ideas? :/
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2006-01-22, 08:16 PM

paste the output from lspci here

 

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2006-01-23, 08:41 PM
OK, thanks, I should get a chance to use this laptop tomorrow, so I'll have the results by then.
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2006-01-24, 04:04 PM

Quote:OK, thanks, I should get a chance to use this laptop tomorrow, so I'll have the results by then.
 

Well, unfortunately, at the time I managed to get this, the wireless PC card wasn't plugged in, but in case it's any use, here is the output. Will get the same with it plugged in asap.

 



Code:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)  00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)  00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)  00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)  00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)  00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)  00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)  00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)  00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)  00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81)  00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)  00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01)  00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01)  00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)  00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)  02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller  02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB PRO/100 VE (MOB) Ethernet Controller (rev 81)




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2006-01-26, 06:29 PM

OK, sorry for the delay, but here is the lspci result with the card plugged in:

 



Code:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB PRO/100 VE (MOB) Ethernet Controller (rev 81)
03:00.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface




 

Although it's a D-Link, it seems that

Code:
03:00.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface


is the wireless card.

 

Any help would be brilliant, thanks.

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2006-01-26, 08:41 PM

Quote:Although it's a D-Link, it seems that
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03:00.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface

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is the wireless card.

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D-Link branded, Texas Instruments make the chipset, this is a very common thing. ACX111 is the chipset that you need to look for, I found this page here: [/url]http://www.houseofcraig.net/acx100_howto.php which pointed me onto the actual drivers site [url=http://acx100.sourceforge.net/]http://acx100.sourceforge.net/

 

Hope that helps

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2006-01-27, 04:23 PM

OK, thanks I'll have a look at that and download the drivers and try a compile.

 

Thanks for the links, znx. :)

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