Web connection using DWL G-122Forum: Networking Topic: Web connection using DWL G-122 started by: trucmuche Posted by trucmuche on May 01 2008,14:16
Hello everybody,I own an old Toshiba Satellite S2800-100, with neither ethernet nor wifi connections. I am now posting using WinME and a D-Link DWL-G122 USB adapter. I woiuld like to install Linux on this machine, and it seems that only DSL will fit in the small memory. My problem is with the internet connection. I have tried copying the drivers from the D-Link CD and running ndiswrapper. Here is what I did *$ ndiswrapper -l No drivers installed *$ ndiswrapper -i wlan0/dr71wu.inf Installing dr71wu *$ ndiswrapper -l Installed drivers: dr71wu driver installed, hardware present *$modprobe ndiswrapper *$iwconfig lo no wireless extensions *$ iwconfig wlan0 essid Livebox-22bc Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A): SET failed on device wlan0 ; No such device. Can somebody tell me what I did wrong ? Another method would be to use the native Linux driver rt73. However, this software must be compiled, and I fail to find "make" in the DSL distribution; is it present and where? Thanks in advance for any hint. Posted by curaga on May 01 2008,15:22
As a tiny distro DSL does not have compiling tools in the base - they are available as extensions, pick either gcc1-with-libs or compile-3.3.5. You might need the kernelsource extension also (for the kernel headers), if they aren't enough, you need also the full kernel source from kernel.org.
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on May 01 2008,16:37
Check the ndiswrapper list pages - there are usually reports on which drivers will work, etc.afaik there has been several attempts on the native rt73 driver. Try a forum search if you need more help or if you want to try to see if there's a precompiled binary. |