Dlink DWL-G510: Never get hardware present message

[Ed Young]

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I have a Dlink DWL-G510 that works find under Windows XP (dual boot). I'm trying to get it to work with Debian 3.1r1. 

 

I'm following the instructions at

http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Networking/ndiswrapper_on_Debian_Sarge_without_having_to_compile_anything

 

After installing the wifi driver, the wifi card hardware doesn't seem to be detected.

 

When running ndiswrapper -l I get

Falcon:# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
mrv8k51 driver present

 

but I never get a line that says

"hardware present"

 

 

I installed the kernel image (2.6.8-2-686), ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.8-2-686, and wireless tools, ndiswrapper-utils.

apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686
apt-get install wireless-tools
apt-get install ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.8-2-686

all returned with no errors.

 

When I ran ndiswrapper -i mrv8k51.inf I get

Falcon:/home/ed/DWL-G510_NET/WinXP# ndiswrapper -i mrv8k51.inf
Installing mrv8k51
Parse error in inf. Unable to find section W8100PCI.zerocfg
Parse error in inf. Unable to find section W8100PCI.zerocfg
Parse error in inf. Unable to find section W8100PCI.zerocfg

 

Falcon:/home/ed/DWL-G510_NET/WinXP# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
mrv8k51 driver present

 

at this point I have the /etc/ndiswrapper/mrv8k51 directory containing the inf, sys and conf files, so it looks good.

 

modprobe ndiswrapper seems to work and the module is present.

 

I never get the wlan0 interface to come up.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks,

 

Ed