How to get D-Link DWL 650 wireless pcmcia card to work?

[pooklaroux]

This forum is the best -- thanks for being so patient with us newbies.

I am trying to get a D-Link DWL 650 wireless pcmcia card to work. Until I do, I can't dl any files from the machine running puppy -- I stlll have to dl them from the ibook and burn them, and port them over on a cd.

I read somewhere there is a dot pup that might help with this, but I still might need to have the windows drivers?

[reallynewby]

I have the same card which you reference. In my reading about this card, I have found that there are different versions of this card which use different chips. Hopefully you will find that yours is the same as mine so that these instructions help you.

First go to this site: http://mymirrors.homelinux.org/puppy/wireless/

Forum member tempestuous has put these together.

Here you will find drivers for many different cards. The driver which worked for me was acx_100. You will see 4 different references for this card. You may find usefull information in the readme files to help you connect.

Download the file: acx100-0.2.2pre8-57.tar.gz. When you click on this file, the download dialogue box opens and need to choose save. This will open another dialogue box and you can choose where to save it. The "home" folder is what I chose.

After the file is downloaded, go to your desktop and find the file you downloaded (easiest way is by using the icon labeled home on your desktop). Click on the acx100...... file and it will open Xarchive program which will uncompress the files and put the results of that operation where you tell it. You should see a list of 8 files. Choose "the select all" icon; then choose the "extract" icon. Another dialogue box will pop up allowing you to choose where to extract the files. Choose "/" (the root directory). When this is complete, close the program and exit back to your desktop.

Open a terminal session (Start/Run/Rxvt Terminal Emulator). Then do the following steps:
cd /
depmod
modprobe acx_pci
iwconfig wlan0 channel X essid XXXXX mode managed
ifconfig wlan0 up
dhcpcd -n wlan0


In the iwconfig command you will need to substitute your particular values where I have put X. For me, my router is uses channel 6 and my essid is Linksys. These will most likely be different for you.

As a substite for these last steps you can run the WAG program. It will perform these steps for you.

Good luck. Once you are able to connect you can then learn how to automate this process. I am new to linux and have learned everything through trial and error and much help from forum members.

[r__hughes]

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I am trying to get a D-Link DWL 650 wireless pcmcia card to work. Until I do, I can't dl any files from the machine running puppy -- I stlll have to dl them from the ibook and burn them, and port them over on a cd.

I read somewhere there is a dot pup that might help with this, but I still might need to have the windows drivers?

Better late than never - check out http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Wifi/
and download wifi-1.0.4-beta-2.pup

---- edited 23feb07 to update the dotpup link link which is now at ;-
http://puppyfiles.org/dotpupsde/dotpups/Wifi/

This contains drivers for ndiswrapper to support the following cards (yours is among them)

List of known supported cards

Driver file: 2802w
VID:PID 1260:3890
SMC2802W 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless PCI Adapter

Driver file: airplus
VID:PID 104c:8400
D-Link AirPlus DWL-650+ Wireless Cardbus Adapter
D-Link AirPlus DWL-520+ Wireless PCI Adapter

Driver file: bcmwl5
VID:PID 14e4:4320
Linksys WPC54G 802.11g Wireless PCI Adapter
Linksys WPC54GS 802.11g Wireless PCI Adapter
Broadcom BCM94306 802.11g Mini-PCI

Driver file: bcmwl5a
VID:PID 14e4:4301
Broadcom 802.11b
VID:PID 14e4:4320
Broadcom 54g MaxPerformance 802.11g

Driver file: gplus
VID:PID 104c:9066
D-Link AirPlus G+ DWL-G650+ Wireless Cardbus Adapter
D-Link AirPlus G+ DWL-G520+ Wireless PCI Adapter

Driver file: mrv8k51
VID:PID 11ab:1fa6
D-Link AirPlus G DWL-G630 Wireless Cardbus Adapter
D-Link AirPlus G DWL-G510 Wireless PCI Card

Driver file: mrv8ka51
VID:PID 11ab:1fa6
Marvell Libertas 802.11b/g Wireless SoftAP
VID:PID 11ab:1fa7
Marvell Libertas 802.11b/g Wireless SoftAP
ASUS 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Card
802.11b/g Wireless LAN Card

Driver file: net8180
VID:PID 10ec:8180
Realtek RTL8180 Wireless LAN (Mini-)PCI NIC

Driver file: neta3ab
VID:PID 168c:0013
D-Link AirPlus DWL-G650 Wireless Cardbus Adapter(rev.C)
D-Link AirPlus DWL-G520 Wireless PCI Adapter(rev.B)
D-Link AirPremier DWL-AG530 Wireless PCI Adapter
VID:PID 168c:001a
D-Link AirPlus G DWL-G510 Wireless PCI Adapter(rev.B)
D-Link AirPlus G DWL-G630 Wireless Cardbus Adapter(rev.D)

Driver file: netadm11
VID:PID 1317:8201
ADMtek ADM8211 Wireless Adapter

Driver file: netdlwl
VID:PID 1186:3300
D-Link Air DWL-610 Wireless Cardbus Adapter
D-Link Air DWL-510 Wireless PCI Adapter

Driver file: ntpr11ab
VID:PID 168c:0012
ORiNOCO 802.11a/b ComboCard (Silver)

Driver file: rt2500
VID:PID 1814:0201
Ralink RT2500 Wireless LAN Card
ASUS 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Card
ZPlus-G361 802.11g WLAN PCI Adapter
ZPlus-G360 802.11g WLAN mini-PCI Adapter
ZPlus-G160 802.11g WLAN CardBus Adapter
AT&T Plug&Share 54 Mbps Wireless PCI Adapter
AT&T Plug&Share 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Adapter
AMIT 802.11 g Wireless LAN PC Card
AMIT MINI 802.11 g Wireless LAN PC Card
AMIT PCI 802.11 g Wireless LAN PC Card
CastleNet WP1280 802.11 g Wireless LAN Card
Edimax EW-7108 Series 802.11g Wireless LAN PC Card
Edimax EW-7128 Series 802.11g Wireless LAN PCI Card
Hawking HWC54GR Hi-Speed Wireless-G CardBus Card
Hawking HWP54GR Hi-Speed Wireless-G PCI Card
Gigabyte WIKG mini PCI WLAN Card
Gigabyte WMKG Cardbus WLAN Card
Billionton 802.11 b/g Wireless LAN Card
Also 802.11 b/g Wireless LAN Cards from ASUS, AMIGO, QCOM, WLAN

Driver file: wn22n51
VID:PID 8086:4220
Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection

Driver file: w70n51
VID:PID 8086:1043
Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 7100 LAN Card Driver

[harryc]

I have a dlink dwl-650 M1 cardbus pcmcia adapter which has the rtl-8180 chipset. Will this dotpup run and work on 2.1.3 Puppy linux?

[tempestuous]

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 8056#98056

[harryc]

Thanks for the information/link.

[zurielr]

I am new in linux!

I downloaded the file wifi-1.0.4-beta-2.pup

But this is not as simple as windows, where you just open the file and just follow instructions!

After downloading the file, how do I install it!

I'd apressiate any help A LOT!

Zuriel Rubio

[ieee488]

.pup is a compressed file like .zip

double-click on the file and it should automatically install

[tempestuous]

I downloaded the file wifi-1.0.4-beta-2.pup

That's crazy. wifi-1.0.4-beta-2.pup is an old, unpolished attempt at a wifi wizard.
Zuriel, it would help the Puppy community if you could tell us where the information is on this forum which misleads people to do this. We need to delete this information.
In the meantime ... use Puppy's Network Wizard. Unless your wifi chipset is unsupported by the (many) wifi drivers already contained in Puppy, there is no need to install anything.

[zurielr]

Hey, the things I downloaded I got them from another website as I was searching to fix my problem. Maybe it's like you said, old attempts. I'll do as you said and see if it works for me. I am really new to this!

I am also reading the "Linux Bible" to learn more about linux.

So far I love this operating system I hope I can learn more!

Thank you so much ! ! ! !