D-Link AirPlus wireless driver?
Jerry Miller
gamphd at comcast.net
Tue Sep 6 13:02:36 UTC 2005
I have a support request in to D-Link for the chipset info.
If and when they respond, I'll repost. Thanks!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Winston at Ubuntulinux" <ubuntu at myanmarlug.org>
To: "Ubuntu Help and User Discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Cc: <gamphd at comcast.net>
Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 11:36 PM
Subject: Re: D-Link AirPlus wireless driver?
> There was a time I was having problem with my WiFi card and my card was
> not supported by Netgear. I have Netgear WL511v2. V1 cards are supported
> by Prism52.org drivers but NOT v2's. A few days ago, I got it working
> using ndiswrapper ( http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ ) and WinXP
> driver from the CD that came with my WiFi card. Works like a charm. I
> believed the way ndiswrapper work on Horay is broken but I installed
> Breezy and it all good.
>
> You need to find out what chipset your card use in order for us to point
> out which driver you need to use on Linux natively. Other than that,
> there always is ndiswrapper as an option (although I'd advise against it
> and give your money to those who develop Linux native driver).
>
> Check this one out (
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/350612 ) since they said
> your card support Linux with native driver.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Winston
>
> On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 22:40:15 -0400
> "Jerry Miller" <gamphd at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> I should have given more specific information:
>> Model DWL G-630 v.C2
>>
>> Also, I've contacted D-Link to try to get some
>> information from them and visited their site to
>> confirm my impression that Linux was not among
>> the OS's supported by their drivers.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jerry Miller" <gamphd at comcast.net>
>> To: <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 4:06 PM
>> Subject: D-Link AirPlus wireless driver?
>>
>>
>> > One would think, now that D-Link is (I think)
>> > owned by Linksys and Linksys is owned by
>> > Cisco that they would support a much broader
>> > range of operating systems for their wireless
>> > cards. The one in my laptop works with Win2K
>> > but not with Linux. I also have a PCMCIA
>> > wireless card in my desktop that runs NT4,
>> > which is not plug-and-play, and despite Best
>> > Buy's assurances, Linksys doesn't support it
>> > with any driver.
>> >
>> > Anyone know of a driver (or, better yet,
>> > where I can get the info to write my own)?
>>
>>
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