Re: DWL-G630 revision E2
- From: "Tee Jay Rosene" <teejayrosene@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:34:41 -0500
had the same problems. I actually banged my head against the wall for about
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> From: "Sturla Holm Hansen" <sturla@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: DWL-G630 revision E2
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> Hi list, I have a DWL-G630 revision E2 that I try to get to work in
> Kubuntu 6.10.
> I have tried all I could google up, this card uses an RALINK chipset,
> but
> listed as "Ralink unknown device 0302" in lspci, I tried the rt61 and
> rt2500 modules, both load but none connects to the freakin' card, so I'm
> kinda stuck, I would like to get this to work without ndiswrapper, so
> any
> hints anyone could give me would be great!
>
> The thing I don't get is that the card shows up as wlan0, and SOMETIMES
> find something when I run "iwlist scanning" but not all the time, but in
> knetworkmanager it's listed as a wired network card.
> I don't know what driver it's using as it is and I don't know why
> knetworkmanager lists is as a wired card when it's named wlan0 and can
> sometimes scan for networks...
>
> Im stuck, so as I said, any suggestions....
>
> Thanx
>
> Sturla
I have the a DWL G650, and although it is not the same card as yours, I
six months trying to figure out how to get it working. Finally, I posted a
question to users on ubuntu.ca and I was given very helpful and useful
advice. This is what it was:
If you're on Edgy, search synaptic for restricted-modules, install the
package for your architecture (probably 'generic' or 'i386'), reboot, and
then it should be detected.
If you're on Dapper I suggest you reboot after removing ndiswrapper.
Once you've rebooted, check System>Administration>Networking, and see if
the
wireless card is listed. If there is an entry for wireless networking
there,
then your card has been detected.
If the card is still not being detected, then I would first check that the
pcmcia card bus and other laptop doodads are working properly - search the
forums and the internet for linux on your particular computer.
You may want to try booting the kernal with options such as noapic or
acpi=off, to see if that works, the former was necessary on one of my
laptops for it to recognise the soundcard, wifi and pcmcia bus on hoary.
Once it's detected:
1. Turn off any security on your wireless network
2. Install network-manager and network-manager-gnome (assuming you're on
Ubuntu)
3. Restart Gnome. You should see a network icon in the top righthand.
Click
it. Does it give you wireless network options? If so, sign onto your
network.
4. Once you have it working, then you can enable the security, and network
manager will disconnect you and ask you for the WEP passphrase/whatever.
If
you are using WPA security, then you have to install some other packages,
so
search for that in the forums.
Hope that helps.
Brendan
So now I pass this information on to you; I hope it helps. I know it sure
helped me.
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