Hello,
I just installed Fedora 10 on my computer and I am attempting to set up a D-Link DWL-G520+ network card. When I use the "Network Configuration" tool and select "Add" then try to find the network card from the list under "Select Ethernet Adapter" I don't see my card or any wireless cards from D-Link. What should I choose?
Thanks.
Tom
Tom Smith wrote:
Hello,
I just installed Fedora 10 on my computer and I am attempting to set up a D-Link DWL-G520+ network card. When I use the "Network Configuration" tool and select "Add" then try to find the network card from the list under "Select Ethernet Adapter" I don't see my card or any wireless cards from D-Link. What should I choose?
Your card uses one of the Texas Instrument chipsets (a lot of D-Link's cards do), specifically the ACX111 chip and TI doesn't have an open source driver for it. You're probably stuck using ndiswrapper and the Windows driver (ugly, but it works).
TI has shown a distrust of the open source arena with most of their chips. I know that a number of their chipsets can be made to transmit and receive on frequencies and at power levels not allowed for wireless networking by the US Federal Communications Commission by hacking the firmware or poking various bits in the registers of the card.
Pity. They're generally nice units. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer ricks@nerd.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - "Doctor! My brain hurts!" "It will have to come out!" - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
there you go again rick...
poking those poor cardss with your unauthorized 'naughty' bits!!!!
but on a serious tip to the user. get a cheap/low cost usb linksys wifi dongle. not sure of the exact model number, but the one i have cost ~$30/40. plugged it in to a fc8/9 system, and it was listed in the wireless list. never looked back. no madwifi... no ndiswrapper... no windows drivers... it simply worked/works...
i always keep a spare now!
-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Rick Stevens Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 1:22 PM To: Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora. Subject: Re: Fedora10 Wireless configuration
Tom Smith wrote:
Hello,
I just installed Fedora 10 on my computer and I am attempting to set up a D-Link DWL-G520+ network card. When I use the "Network Configuration" tool and select "Add" then try to find the network card from the list under "Select Ethernet Adapter" I don't see my card or any wireless cards from D-Link. What should I choose?
Your card uses one of the Texas Instrument chipsets (a lot of D-Link's cards do), specifically the ACX111 chip and TI doesn't have an open source driver for it. You're probably stuck using ndiswrapper and the Windows driver (ugly, but it works).
TI has shown a distrust of the open source arena with most of their chips. I know that a number of their chipsets can be made to transmit and receive on frequencies and at power levels not allowed for wireless networking by the US Federal Communications Commission by hacking the firmware or poking various bits in the registers of the card.
Pity. They're generally nice units. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer ricks@nerd.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - "Doctor! My brain hurts!" "It will have to come out!" - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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