dlink g520+ (TI acx111) & ndiswrapper...

Elias · 2006-02-11 19:20:30

Hi,

I have an (horrible) wireless card that's driving me crazy : i can't get my D-Link G520+ to work with ndiswrapper.

It seems this card is only sold in Europe since I don't see it on the us website of Dlink. The card appears in the list of working card on the ndiswrapper homepage (I checked using the pciid : 104c:9066)

I use the drivers linked on this page, called "gplus", the Ax version (I checked on my pci card) and last version of ndiswrapper from pacman.

I installed it using the how to on the ndiswrapper homepage. Dmesg indicate that the drivers succesfully load.

When I start the network, wlan0 appears in iwconfig and in ifconfig.
The card "see" my access point (it appears in the list when I do "iwlist wlan0 scan") but it can't connect to it : when I do "iwconfig wlan0 essid home2" I get no message and "iwconfig wlan0" show me that the card is not connected.

I tried to do it with and without using WEP, doesn't change anything.

Strange thing is that when one of my computers (a G5) "create" an ad-hoc wireless network, the card on archlinux connects to it sucessfully and can even ping the G5...

Does any one have an idea or managed to have this card working with Linux ?

Thanks by advance.

stonecrest · 2006-02-11 22:24:13

After setting your essid, are you running dhcpcd? Maybe you need to add more info about the AP, like mode, channel..

A better way of starting the network is to put something like the following lines in your /etc/rc.conf:

lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
eth0="dhcp"
wlan0="dhcp"
wlan_wlan0="wlan0 essid home2"
INTERFACES=(lo wlan0 !eth0)

and then use /etc/rc.d/network start

Elias · 2006-02-11 22:44:12

Here is the network part of my rc.conf

lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
wlan0="wlan0 192.168.0.208 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
wlan_wlan0="wlan0 essid home2 channel 2"
INTERFACES=(lo wlan0)

I'll post you the settings of my AP as soon as I can (the network is over two differents flats, its midnight here and I'am in the wrong side of the street )

iphitus · 2006-02-12 00:21:12

main page: http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page
native driver here: http://acx100.erley.org/
follow these instructions: http://acx100.erley.org/howto.txt
but make sure you use the latest snapshot instead of the one there.

iphitus.

Elias · 2006-02-12 10:35:59

I did try with the last snapshot of the native drivers and with a few different firmwares (compilation outside the kernel tree) and each times I loaded them, i got a kernel panic :s

I beleive its too early to use the native drivers with this damn TI chipset and I manage to "see" my AP and sometimes even connects to it, I thinks I'am on the good way with ndiswrapper.

(iwlist wlan0 scan comming soon)

Elias · 2006-02-12 11:54:05

I'am getting crazy...

here is my "iwlist wlan0 scan" and my "iwconfig wlan0", as you see I'm connected and I do have internet, with the wireless.

(And I did not change anything since yesterday :s)

iwlist wlan0 scan

wlan0     Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:12:A9:CF:F2:4B
                    ESSID:"home2"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.417 GHz (Channel 2)
                    Quality:0/100  Signal level:-68 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:2 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:5.5 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:6 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:9 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:12 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:18 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:24 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:36 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:48 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
                    Extra:bcn_int=100
                    Extra:atim=0

iwconfig wlan0

wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"home2"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.417 GHz  Access Point: 00:12:A9:CF:F2:4B   
          Bit Rate:18 Mb/s   Tx-Power:10 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3  
          RTS thr:4096 B   Fragment thr:4096 B   
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:100/100  Signal level:-68 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

The only strange thing is that it seems I need to always keep "pinging" my gateway in order to keep the connection alive otherwise I loose the connection...

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#1 2006-02-11 19:20:30

dlink g520+ (TI acx111) & ndiswrapper...

#2 2006-02-11 22:24:13

Re: dlink g520+ (TI acx111) & ndiswrapper...

#3 2006-02-11 22:44:12

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#4 2006-02-12 00:21:12

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#5 2006-02-12 10:35:59

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