D-Link driver installation

[Barry Donaldson]

Thanks Gavin for the (extremely) quick reply.

I used the driver from the Edubuntu disk, but I did it using a load of cryptic console commands from the interweb.

I'll check out the "Synaptic Package Manager" tonight. (I write MS systems for a living but I've got to say that Linux have the coolest names!)

Thanks VERY much.
Barry.

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Sent: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:59:59 +0000
From: Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com>
To: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: D-Link driver installation

> On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Barry Donaldson wrote:
> 
> > I'm using a D-Link DWL-122 (usb dongle) which should work with
> > linux-wlan-ng, but when I go through the installation instructions I get
> > to the part where I've got to do something in the /etc/hotplug/ folder (I
> > think), but there is no such folder!
> 
> Did you download the driver from the linux-wlan-ng guys or are you using
> the ubuntu package?  Not having used this type of card, I'm not sure what
> the steps are, but in case you're not aware of it, I'll just point out the
> linux-wlan-ng package in ubuntu (and edubuntu) which you should be able to
> install from the synaptic package manager (under administration).
> 
> 	http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/admin/linux-wlan-ng
> 
> The package description says 
> 
> "The standard Ubuntu kernel already contains all necessary drivers. This
>  package ships utilities and integration scripts to make above cards work
>  seamlessly with the Ubuntu network infrastructure."
> 
> so I would have thought that it should work fairly simply once you have
> these tools installed.  
> 
> I think instructions involving /etc/hotplug/ are probably out date as the
> hotplug subsystem was replaced by a system called udev in recent releases.
> 
> This forum post suggests it was working a little buggily in Nov 2005 but
> that bug has since been fixed so I'd hope it would work well now.
> 
> 	http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=465719#post465719
> 
> > Then I tried installing the ndiswrapper instead but the "make" command
> > wouldn't run ("unknown command" or something).
> 
> That's probably because you don't have development tools (which include
> make) installled.  It seems like you should be able to use the
> linux-wlan-ng driver and it's definitely preferred over the ndiswrapper
> one.
> 
> Let us know how you get on,
> 
> Gavin
> 
> 
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