DWL-G630 revision E2

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Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:30:20 +0100 (CET)
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Hi list, I have a DWL-G630 revision E2 that I try to get to work in
Kubuntu 6.10.
I have tried all I could google up, this card uses an RALINK chipset, but
listed as "Ralink unknown device 0302" in lspci, I tried the rt61 and
rt2500 modules, both load but none connects to the freakin9; card, so I'm
kinda stuck, I would like to get this to work without ndiswrapper, so any
hints anyone could give me would be great!

The thing I don't get is that the card shows up as wlan0, and SOMETIMES
find something when I run "iwlist scanning&quot; but not all the time, but in
knetworkmanager it's listed as a wired network card.
I don't know what driver it's using as it is and I don't know why
knetworkmanager lists is as a wired card when it's named wlan0 and can
sometimes scan for networks...

Im stuck, so as I said, any suggestions....

Thanx

Sturla

If you're on Edgy, search synaptic for restricted-modules, install the
package for your architecture (probably 'generic' or 'i386&#39;), reboot, and
then it should be detected.

If you're on Dapper I suggest you reboot after removing ndiswrapper.

Once you've rebooted, check System>Administration>Networking, and see if the
wireless card is listed. If there is an entry for wireless networking there,
then your card has been detected.

If the card is still not being detected, then I would first check that the
pcmcia card bus and other laptop doodads are working properly - search the
forums and the internet for linux on your particular computer.

You may want to try booting the kernal with options such as noapic or
acpi=off, to see if that works, the former was necessary on one of my
laptops for it to recognise the soundcard, wifi and pcmcia bus on hoary.

Once it's detected:
1. Turn off any security on your wireless network
2. Install network-manager and network-manager-gnome (assuming you're on
Ubuntu)
3. Restart Gnome. You should see a network icon in the top righthand. Click
it. Does it give you wireless network options? If so, sign onto your
network.
4. Once you have it working, then you can enable the security, and network
manager will disconnect you and ask you for the WEP passphrase/whatever. If
you are using WPA security, then you have to install some other packages, so
search for that in the forums.

Hope that helps.

Brendan