On Wednesday 08 November 2006 17:22, George John wrote:

Hi all,

Can anyone let me know how to install and configure my "D-Link WLAN card on RHEL 4.

The details of the D-LINK WLAN card is as follows:

AirPlus G DWL-G510 Wireless G Desktop Adapter (PCI card) H/W Version : C2 F/W Version : 5.00

Also please suggest me any WLAN card that by default will install in RHEL/FEDORA.

You have two options. 1. Go with Windoze drivers and NDISWrapper 2. Go with native Linux drivers which are pretty tough to find and may not have all the functionality you require. Plus the thoroughputs sometime suck.

Which one would you like to try out?

NDISWrapper is pretty straight forward. -> Just download and install NDISWrapper. -> Then install the driver using ndiswrapper -i command. ndiswrapper -i /path/to/windoze/driver's/inf/file -> Check whether its installed correctly ndiswrapper -l -> Now start using the ndiswrapper module modprobe ndiswrapper

Now one of two things should happen. Either you'll be able to see a new network device ( wlan0 ) or your system will freeze. Hope its not the latter one =P

For going with native linux drivers, it is very very simple, just ./configure && make && make install. Thats it. Insert the right module and you'll good to go. Only difference here is that the wifi device might be referred to as ethX instead of wlanX.

BTW I found a nice tut for ndiswrapper: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Ubuntu