D-Link and Ndiswrapper

Kyle Vanditmars kylevan at telus.net
Mon Dec 18 19:09:58 UTC 2006


Regarding WPA. I have the Intel 2915 chip, but when I installed
NetworkManager it either installed wpa_supplicant as dependencies or it
was already installed with 6.10.  I didn't have to install any other
packages to get wlan working.

-Kyle

On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 12:18 -0500, earth walker wrote:
> Hi, Tee Jay.
> 
> Which version of Ubuntu are you using? Many of the D-link adapters actually 
> work in Ubuntu without the need for ndiswrapper. Ndiswrapper should be a 
> last resort only for cards known not to work in linux. Unfortunately much of 
> the documentation seems to points users towards it unnecessarily.
> 
> If it is one of the Dlink cards based on the Atheros chip (my AirPlus is) it 
> should work out of the box in Dapper, while in Edgy you need to install the 
> restricted modules for your kernel version.
> 
> I would start with the assumption that it works (since it does on mine). So 
> the first thing you should do is remove the ndiswrapper stuff completely.
> 
> If you're on Edgy, search synaptic for restricted-modules, install the 
> package for your architecture (probably 'generic' or 'i386'), reboot, and 
> then it should be detected.
> 
> If you're on Dapper I suggest you reboot after removing ndiswrapper.
> 
> Once you've rebooted, check System>Administration>Networking, and see if the 
> wireless card is listed. If there is an entry for wireless networking there, 
> then your card has been detected.
> 
> If the card is still not being detected, then I would first check that the 
> pcmcia card bus and other laptop doodads are working properly - search the 
> forums and the internet for linux on your particular computer.
> 
> You may want to try booting the kernal with options such as noapic or 
> acpi=off, to see if that works, the former was necessary on one of my 
> laptops for it to recognise the soundcard, wifi and pcmcia bus on hoary.
> 
> Once it's detected:
> 1. Turn off any security on your wireless network
> 2. Install network-manager and network-manager-gnome (assuming you're on 
> Ubuntu)
> 3. Restart Gnome. You should see a network icon in the top righthand. Click 
> it. Does it give you wireless network options? If so, sign onto your 
> network.
> 4. Once you have it working, then you can enable the security, and network 
> manager will disconnect you and ask you for the WEP passphrase/whatever. If 
> you are using WPA security, then you have to install some other packages, so 
> search for that in the forums.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Brendan
> 
> 
> >From: "Tee Jay Rosene" <teejayrosene at gmail.com>
> >Reply-To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> >To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
> >Subject: D-Link and Ndiswrapper
> >Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 16:05:25 -0500
> >
> >I don't have any questions *per se, *I do want to include my experience 
> >with
> >Ndiswrapper so far, to better facilitate others who would also like to use
> >this programme; essentially I want to participate in Ubuntu Canada by
> >jotting down some of the problems I'm encountering in my attempt to get 
> >WiFi
> >working on Ubuntu. Although I don't have a solution, I guess this is my way
> >to participate in the open source community, and more particularly, Ubuntu
> >Canada.
> >
> >I'm trying to get a D-Link "Air Plus Extreme G" card to work on an older 
> >IBM
> >Thinkpad (model 1161). I know this card works with the hardware because it
> >worked all right when I had Windows 2000 installed as the operating system.
> >There are four different versions of this specific card, and the one I own
> >is version B4. Consequently I downloaded the corresponding driver for the
> >card and used Ndiswrapper to "wrap" the driver. The card was then detected,
> >however I could not get it to work.
> >
> >Because the driver I downloaded was an updated version, I also tried to use
> >the version that was on the installation disk that came with the card.
> >Again, the same results. The card was detected as being present, but I was
> >unable to activate itthe lights were not blinking, etc.
> >
> >I know this is not Ubuntu's fault, but rather the card manufacturer's and
> >that giant proprietary conglomerate that has made my older Ethernet card
> >incompatible with Ubuntu. Luckily Ubuntu and the open source community
> >always has ingenious work-arounds for such situations such as mine, and I
> >need to find and/or learn how to do this.
> 
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