I have set up my knoppmyth box with a d-link g-510 wireless card in it, but I can't get it working. The system detects it because when I run lspci I can see it in the list of pci cards. (it has the atheros chipset) I have messed around a little bit with ndiswrappers but I can't seem to get it to work. Is there any sort of walkthrough out there that deals with this card? I have read about some problems people have had I just haven't been able to apply their solutions to get mine to work. if any of you have got it to work, or seen a solution out there that is based in knoppmyth or debian please help!

thanks in advance.

my specs are:
Pentium 4 1.5 ghz
512 mb RAM
120 GB western digital HD
Hauppauge PVR 250
geForce 5200

I am running knoppmyth R5A30.1

Are you running security on your access point?

I'm not it's wide open and this is what I do with a g520 which is pretty much the same card, with atheros chipset.

To test it, at a command line I enter



And then



It should come back and tell you that it picked up an IP Adress from your router. If everything is good and you can ping google and get a response - then I go to the Interfaces file and set it in there.



And add ath0 where it says "Auto" as I only want wireless, I replace the line for eth0 (onboard NIC) with ath0. Hit Ctrl+x to save the file (make sure your root) and reboot. It should now grab a dhcp address on your wirelss nic and you're in business.[/code]

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P4 2.8 GHZ
2 gig DDR RAM
Nvidia FX5200
2 x 160 gig PATA HD
PVR 150 (With IR Blaster)
Starchoice Satellite (Canada)

that worked! thanks so much!
I did have an encrypted network but when I unencrypted it, I was able to connect.
Is there any way to program a config file so that I am still able to encrypt my wireless and have it work properly?

thanks again!

You sure can.... where did I put those instructions....

Try this in your /etc/network/interfaces config file:



Let me know if that works for you. You'll probably have to change the essid form "default" to whatever you named your Access Point.

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P4 2.8 GHZ
2 gig DDR RAM
Nvidia FX5200
2 x 160 gig PATA HD
PVR 150 (With IR Blaster)
Starchoice Satellite (Canada)

that worked!

thanks again!

it is up and running securely!

Does anyone know how i can get the same card to work, but with a RaLink chipset? They have drivers o their side(i think) but i dont know how to use them.
Tried ndiswrapper and it found the hardware but i cant get a DHCP ip. And even if i assign a ip it wont work. "iwlist scanning" works though, so it is not completely dead. Just dont seem to want to talk with anyone.