Hi.
There have been many messages on this topic but I personally have not been able to fix it.

I have installed a D-Link DWL-520 whireless PCI card in a system with Fedora. This uses the ADMTEK ADM8211 chip.

I have compiled the driver using ADM8211_src_105.tar.gz and I installed it.

Everything works. I see the card. I can set the IPaddress with ifconfig.

I can set the channel and the ESSID when I am in ad-hoc mode.

But when I switch to Manged mode, the ESSID is reset to nothing (ESSID "") and the channel to 0. There is no way I can set the ESSID when I am in managed mode.

Any idea how I can fix this problem?

Thanks
Carlolin

ok, after many trials and some cumbersome commands I was finally able to set the card in mode managed, set the channel and set the right ESSID.

So now, all the settings are theoretically OK. But I am unable to see any external IP (I mean except the one of the computer itslef). I tried to ping the router, the AP, another PC I have in my internal LAN and no answer. Unablel to connect.

Any idea if I need to set something else?

Thanks
Regards
Carlolin

I am doing the same thing ... my card is a SMC 2635 (admtek 8211). I am having similar trouble.

carlolin
I have a card with the same chipset, but I am a bit of a newbie and am having a problem getting that driver working. I really dont know where my problem would be, I have put together instructions for myself off of various sites, but still come up short. Could you go through your method for me, it would be much appreciated.

I have still not been able to get my wlan working. If anybody has gotten theirs to work and its a ADM8211 chipset, maybe you could send a few pointers my way. I am running Fedora Core 1 on a Soltek mobo that has an nforce2 chipset.

hang on will go find a thread i poseted in b4... be right back

Ok Hang on mate go a minute??

The source code seems buggy so i gave up on it and i am using NDISWRAPPER
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/

which doesnt seem to work in 9.2

next goto the admtek website where you got the source code and download the windows drivers for the card. extract them to a folder.

Log in as Root, have the readme and install files open in a text editor you will need them...after your have extracted the ndiswrapper to a folder do these things that i did and see if it works. The make process for the ndiswrapper asks you for the paths to your windows sys and inf files

in a terminal window

cd ndiswrapper
make
insmod drivers/ndiswrapper.o
cd utils
make
cp /usr/sbin/loadndisdriver

next flick back to the install file and locate the lspci line to get your vendor ID numbers copy and paste that string into the terminal window

it will give you two numbers like so the first block of four is Device ID and the is Vendor ID

xxxx:yyyy

next command

loadndisdriver xxxx yyyy /lib/windrivers/aaaa.sys /lib/windrivers/bbbb.inf

substitute with your sys and inf names and product and vendor numbers.

More to follow this should get you up and running .....

If you dont know VI editor , press INS to be able to edit stuff then Press ESC when you are done ... it will sit there and wait type in :wq and it will save and exit. we need to get it going every boot up...

in the terminal

vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1

# YOUR WIRELESS CARD NAME HERE
# These settings are from the way I configured my wireless router
DEVICE=eth1
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
onBOOT=yes
TYPE=Wireless
ESSID=SMC
KEY=WHATEVER
CHANNEL=1
GATEWAY=192.168.1.1

exit VI editor

type in terminal
iwconfig (look for your wlan card)
iwconfig eth1 mode Managed
iwconfig eth1 key WHATEVER
iwconifg eth1 essid WHATEVER
ifup eth1 (I got an error but then it said '... done' and I knew)
ifconfig (make sure it is in the list)
ping 192.168.1.1 (when this worked I instantly went to google.com to make sure that it was working and Viola! it was)

Now we still need to make it work after we reboot.

I currently do this by issuing the following in /etc/rc.d/rc.local

ifdown eth1
rmmod ndiswrapper
insmod /root/ndiswrapper/driver/ndiswrapper.o
loadndisdriver xxxx yyyy /lib/windrivers/aaaa.sys /lib/windrivers/bbbb.inf
ifup eth1

if something goes wrong at any stage after this just type ifup eth1 in the console..

configured two of these now... the second one choose eth0 as default so try substituting eth0 for eth1 if you are having troubles.

also get kwifi manager

all thanks to other peoples posts in this forum I just gathered them up and made a few things a bit clearer , plus they changed the names of things in the newer version of ndiswrapper so i updated that info. works for me .. let me know how u go.

Thanks for all that, I will get to it soon, hopefully. I have some other stuff I need to get to for now, namely, Calculus. I already have the kwifi, but it does little if there are problems with the card. Hopefully now there won't be anymore problems with the card.

very true, kwifi kind of likes a working wireless card, otherwise it doesnt have much to graph.

Hi nuwuser

It is carlolin. I gave up to try to use Fedora and went to Red Hat 9 (older but better supported, at least for now). I also changed WiFi card. I am using a Linksys with the ATMEL chip AT76C503A. After these changes, everything worked
Carlolin

hey carlolin
Where did you get that Linksys card? I am going to try what yraen69 posted and if I still cant get it I might end up getting a different card.

The Dlink 520's work with Ndiswrapper, so do the Linksys ones.

Hi nuwuser

it is actually a USB adapter (WUSB11 v2.6) I would have preferred a card but I swapped it with my Windows PC. It is not a very new USB adapter because I bought it some time ago. But as I said, I swapped it with my windows pc

There is an interesting website where you can check what is the chip used in your card
https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/oet/c...ericSearch.cfm


Carlolin