[plug] How to add a WiFi PC card D-Link DWL-650+ to Ubuntu 9.10?

[Fred Janon]

Thanks Daniel, I'll check it out.

Fred

--- On Mon, 12/7/09, Daniel J. Axtens <danielax at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Daniel J. Axtens <danielax at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [plug] How to add a WiFi PC card D-Link DWL-650+ to Ubuntu 9.10?
To: "plug" <plug at plug.org.au>
Date: Monday, December 7, 2009, 2:24 PM

I don't know if there are native linux drivers for this card: if not,
ndis-wrapper is the way to go.

It's a while since I set it up, so I'm very hazy on the details (and
it's probably got a lot easier since I did it!), but it works well for
my Netgear PCMCIA card.

HTH,
Daniel Axtens

2009/12/7 andrew <andrew.sharp at jcy.net>:
> Fred,
> Have you tried tailing dmesg  while you plug in the card / remove it to see
> what, if anything, it says?
>
> If you aren't familiar with dmesg it's kinda like the kernel log.
>
> If you get into a terminal session and type:
>
> sudo tail -f /var/log/dmesg
>
> it should display the last bit of the log and then it'll show you new info
> as it's written as you plug in / remove the card.
>
> - Andrew
>
> Fred Janon wrote:
>>
>> I just installed Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop 32-bit i386 on an IBM Thinkpad T40. I
>> have a PCMCIA card from D-Link, a WiFi DWF-650+ in the laptop but it's not
>> recognized at all. No LDE on the card and nothing in the system that
>> indicates that the card is there. The card works fine when I boot Windows. I
>> did a couple of searches on the Net, but nothing conclusive came up. Any
>> idea of how I should investigate?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Fred
>>
>
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