linux and wireless

[matty]

I got a d-link wireless pcmcia card yesterday and i cant figure out how to install it onto my laptop (running redhat 9)
i tried linuxant's windows driver installer and it didnt work and yeah i cant seem to find any auto-detecting thingy like the one windows has -_-'
i'm pretty n00b at this so yeah please help :):):)

edit: its a DWL-G650

[wolfpac181]

Could you use this? (http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/)

Found off of this (http://support.dlink.com/faq/view.asp?prod_id=357&question=General%20Wireless)

[matty]

okay so for some reason i have to recompile kernels and all that
and i have nfi what im doing
could someone please tell me what to do? :P much rep and stuff is all i can give

[Uther Pendragon]

okay wifi in linux is a bit of a black art. You really need to pick your hardware correctly on this if you want it to work seamlessly. Whatever happens you will probably need to recompile your kernel. I would suggest you find somebody who can come and do it for you and show you how it's done. Compiling kernels isn't the easiest thing in the world if you aren't that comfortable with linux.

Also redhat 9 is quite old. Most wifi cards are only supported in newer kernels. You could try fedora or ubuntu, would probably make your life easier as they come with far newer kernels.

[ewe2]

You're in luck, DWL-G650 uses the madwifi driver. With a sufficiently new kernel, it's probably part of the kernel source by now. Don't try the ndiswrapper hack, its messy and doesnt work properly.

My best results were with a DWL-520+ (801.11b) card and a DI-514 AP. This particular D-Link card uses the acx100 driver (not all of them do) and it was pretty stable, but I eventually went back to a cable setup because gigabit shits all over wireless.

[wolfpac181]

ohhhhhh.... sweet. didn't know it's on the madwifi

here's a little bit of a mix I'm in with wireless and route'n

trying to route my nic to the wireless. (use the wireless as an access point)

ath0 is atheros chipset mini-pci on soekris wrap.
2 ethernet (eth0 and eth1) built on soekris wrap.
chipsets are found and workable.

eth0 is Lan with DHCP
eth1 is Wan

eth1 is workable, eth0 is leasing dhcp. doing great there.
trying to bridge ath0 with eth0 and still does not get signal. I also looked at other places that say ONLY hermes chipset will support hostap. Is this still holdin true? see other access point vendors using atheros chipsets on the cards.


help appreciated.

[ewe2]

I tried doing something like this with my wireless but it was messy and made using stuff over the bridge difficult. A bridging kernel requires that you route everything through another interface br0, which is not a good idea in your case. You're much better off using a real AP that the wireless can see and connect that to a machine on the network, effectively converting the wireless link into an ethernet link.