D-link wireless card not recognized in Compaq SR1000V Desktop

Can you provide the output of:

sudo lshw -C network; lsusb; lspci

Thanks.

white@white-desktop:~$ sudo lshw -C network
[sudo] password for white:
  *-network:0 UNCLAIMED
       description: Ethernet controller
       product: Marvell W8300 802.11 Adapter
       vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
       physical id: a
       bus info: pci@0000:01:0a.0
       version: 07
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=32
       resources: memory:ed010000-ed01ffff memory:ed000000-ed00ffff
  *-network:1
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: c
       bus info: pci@0000:01:0c.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 10
       serial: 00:11:09:1b:28:c4
       size: 10MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 duplex=half latency=32 link=no maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s
       resources: irq:23 ioport:c800(size=256) memory:ed020000-ed0200ff memory:20000000-2000ffff(prefetchable)

white@white-desktop:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 1058:0400 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. External HDD
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 1058:0500 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 03f0:5111 Hewlett-Packard PhotoSmart 3200 series
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

white@white-desktop:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 82)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Marvell W8300 802.11 Adapter (rev 07)
01:0b.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems V.92 56K WinModem (rev 03)
01:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
white@white-desktop:~$

OK so it is a Marvell W8300 chip. DLink means very little in Linux, only the chip is what we are interested in.

Looks like you need to use ndisgtk + Dlink driver (get the driver from the dlink site and match the archtecture of XP to match your installed arch (if you are using 64bit ubunt, get 64bit XP wifi drivers))

It looks like D link doesn't have a linux driver for the DWL-G510. I looked up a listing on the 520 but they are using the Atheros chip. I'm searching for a driver somewhere but it doesn't look good

You want thewindows driver for your architecture and you will need to install ndisgtk from the install CD or the repos

You can then give ndisgtk the .inf and .sys file from the driver and it will make the device work

I downloaded ndisgtk_0.3-1_all.deb and brought it over to that computer but when I try to open it it just says
error:dependancy is not satifiable:ndiswrapper-utils

I've tried sudo apt-get install ndisgtk and it says

reading package list...done
building dependancy tree
reading state information...done
E: couldn't find package ndisgtk

Then you need the deb file for ndiswrapper-utils too

You will get this a lot, its far easier to connect to a wired connection and install it, you can also get updates which will make things a lot nicer

thanks for stickin with me. I'll try that.

I give up. I bought the bullet and went to best buy and got a Belking F5D7050 wireless adaptor. installed the driver, plugged it in and I was online in less than 2 minutes. Thanks for all the help though.