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My wireless network card d link DWL-G520

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I cant get the card to work in ubuntu is there any driver for it written?

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Jeff Greene (jeffgreene) said : 		#1

Try installing ndiswrapper and loading it with the Windows drivers.
More information here:
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Installation

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williamts99 (williamts99) said : 		#2

Should be supported out of the box, and ndiswrapper should be your last option. According to http://support.dlink.com/faq/view.asp?prod_id=357&question=General%20Wireless
it should be supported with the madwifi drivers.

Have you tried out Network Manager? You can install it through the synaptic or the add/remove programs option, or through the terminal. Or you can just refer to the following link: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/NetworkManager

What version of Ubuntu are you using, and what is the revision of the card? What is the output of the command lspci?

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Ian Langman (langmans) said : 		#3

To get my WLAN card DWL-520 to operate I had to install the MADWIFI drivers, which are part of the restricted packages. Do a search in Synaptic for restricted and select the appropriate packages, I think there are two, restricted for 386 and restricted generic.

This should enable the WLAN card.

Just an aside, I have had a number of problems with Network Manager, only recognising the fixed network. I did manage to get it going by installing NM first and then installing the restricted packages. Unfortunately now after an upgrade it has gone belly up again.

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