wireless connection

[pcandpc]

Hi,

Just installed 1.5 and trying to make a wireless connection
on a pcmcia adapter (dlink dwl-650+).

I am particularly interested in using windows drivers via
ndiswrapper/madwifi.

Has anyone tried this successfully?

Thanks.

[TerryP]

I know some cards like that are supported via the ath driver.

D-Link DWL-A650      AR5210    CardBus    a
      D-Link DWL-AB650     AR5211    CardBus    a/b
      D-Link DWL-A520      AR5210    PCI        a
      D-Link DWL-AG520     AR5212    PCI        a/b/g
      D-Link DWL-AG650     AR5212    CardBus    a/b/g
      D-Link DWL-G520B     AR5212    PCI        b/g
      D-Link DWL-G650B     AR5212    CardBus    b/g

What does it say when you open a console and run the ifconfig program?

[pcandpc]

Hi,

Right now, I am switching between my laptop
and desktop using a removable usb drive to
provide you with the following result:

%ifconfig
fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
options=8<VLAN_MTU>
ether 00:00:e2:8a:e2:8d
media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
status: no carrier
plip0: flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGI ANT> mtu 1500
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
pflog0: flags=0<> mtu 33208
pfsync0: flags=0<> mtu 2020
syncpeer: 224.0.0.240 maxupd: 128

Hopefully, someone doesn't ask me for a longer
output from my laptop as my usb drive is only
512 MB.

Thanks.

[TerryP]

Hmm, doesn't seem to be detected.

If you boot the system with the card removed, press control+alt+f1 and insert the card does it say any thing in the console? You can get back to the desktop by pressing control+alt+f5


Looks to me like the cards not supported by any of the drivers compiled into the kernel (which is most of them) so ndisgen is probably the only option.