[Ndiswrapper-general] DWL-610 again!

[Julien V. <ju...@sk...>]

Hi,

I have not given up, and I will not give up ;-)
I am trying to make my D-Link DWL-610 PCMCIA card work on my system
(Mandrake 10 Community with 2.6.3 kernel).

After compiling and installing yesterday's CVS version on a freshly
installed system, I do not have any problem with my keyboard (which used to
act abnormally with previous versions). I also installed the latest D-Link
driver from their website.
That is a very good thing :)

BUT (yes, there is a but), I cannot manage to make it work in managed mode.
Either, I cannot change my Ess-ID other than being in ad-hoc mode (auto does
not change anything). 
To make the tests easier, I disabled WEP encryption, and configured the
wlan0 interface manually (thus no DHCP).

Here is a kind of sum up of what I have tried, with the results:

# modprobe ndiswrapper
# tail /var/log/messages
Apr 29 17:34:28 athena kernel: ndiswrapper: no version for "struct_module"
found: kernel tainted.
Apr 29 17:34:28 athena kernel: ndiswrapper version 0.7 loaded
Apr 29 17:34:28 athena kernel: ndiswrapper adding netdlwl.sys
Apr 29 17:34:28 athena ifplugd(wlan0)[2056]: ifplugd 0.21b initializing.
Apr 29 17:34:28 athena ifplugd(wlan0)[2056]: Using interface
wlan0/00:0D:88:56:90:47
Apr 29 17:34:28 athena ifplugd(wlan0)[2056]: Using detection mode:
SIOCETHTOOL
Apr 29 17:34:28 athena ifplugd(wlan0)[2056]: Initialization complete, link
beat not detected.
Apr 29 17:34:28 athena kernel: wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device
00:0d:88:56:90:47 using driver netdlwl.sys

# iwconfig wlan0

wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:""
          Mode:Auto  Frequency:2.437GHz  Access Point: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
          Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power:20 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
          RTS thr:2432 B   Fragment thr:2432 B
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:100/100  Signal level:-95 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

# iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc
# iwconfig wlan0 essid My-Essid

wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"My-Essid"
          Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.437GHz  Cell: 02:E0:A8:9D:65:24
          Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power:20 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
          RTS thr:2432 B   Fragment thr:2432 B
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:100/100  Signal level:-95 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

I really do not know what represents this MAC address! My network is very
simple (an usb DSL modem, a firewall, an AP and a lap-top with a wi-fi
card). Of course, my AP does not list my client.

Moreover, the logs always repeat this line:
Apr 29 17:35:19 athena kernel: wlan0: wireless mode set earlier (1) is not
same as wireless mode now (2)

I have read yesterday on one French forum that this card works with
ndiswrapper, what encourages me a lot!
Here is the link: http://linuxfr.org/comments/394080.html (the commentar)
For non-French speaker, I try to sum up:
"I own a DWL-610 card and I have tried to follow the guide on
http://www.canit.se/~oli/wl/ with no success. Nothing to do, it just make
the machine hanging up.
Though, with ndiswrapper, it works! But you have to rename the config files
generated by ndiswrapper -i... "

I do not understand what this guy means! Of course I tried to contact him,
but no email address! Someone left a message yesterday. I hope he will reply
;-)

Well, I think that is enough... I really hope someone can try to help me!
Do not hesitate to ask for further details (but as I am quite a newbie in
this matter, please try and be clear :-P )

I thank you in advance for all your help and suggestions!

Cheers,
Julien