No + made sure of that when ordering. I'll try iwconfig. In any case I'm thinking about sending it back and getting another one does any one know of a cheap pci wireless NIC that has good driver support?
-----Original Message----- From: Arnt Karlsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 10:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PCI Wireless NIC question. On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 08:03:50 -0700, "Percival, Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I recently decided to go wireless at home. I bought a Dlink dwl-520 ..'DWL-520' or 'DWL-520+' ??? That damned "+" makes one _hell_ of a difference, it uses an ACX-100 chip, details in http://acx100.sf.net/ > thinking it was a prisim2 chipset. Well it turned out that when I got > it it is not a prisim2 but rather a realtek. > > No problem they seem to have drivers. ..competence problem, on the part of the part of the chip maker, D-Link promised a linux driver "in a month or 3" a year ago, and they have given up TI, if it is the "+" you're talking about. > http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloads1-3.aspx?software=True&compamod > el=RTL8180L#2002121Unix%20(Linux) > > So after looking at the drivers and playing with the Makefile for a > bit I get them to compile well. Insmod well and the driver shows up > when I do lsmod. I then did this. > > ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 > ifconfig wlan0 up > route add default gateway 192.168.1.1 ..huh??? 'lsmod && uname -a'??? > ifconfig shows wlan0 as up and all looks well. When I attempt to ping > 192.168.1.1 I get no response and after playing with it for some time > I notice that everytime I try to ping out the wlan0 that the loopback > interface's tx and rx are incrementing. I have confirmed that there is > a route for 192.168.1.0 using wlan0 as it's interface and when I down > wlan0 I get hardware errors when trying to ping 192.168.1.1 just like > I would expect with a wired card. > > I'm at wits end and have read everything I can find and none of it > seems to be working. Also just as a another datum pump -i wlan0 fails > also. > > Thanks for any help. ..play with 'iwconfig --help', 'man|info iwconfig'. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
