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So i have been seeing conflicting threads about getting the D-Link DWL-520 Wireless NIC to work in Linux. I recently got one and found that the Prism2 drivers, that some people say they use, didn't work for me. I emailed D-link to ask them why they don't support Linux, as i always do with hardware companies that have products i wish to use. They replied back and now i see why some people say this card works great and others say it absolutley will not work. It turns out there are several revisoins of the DWL-520 and they use one of 3 different chip sets. One of these chip sets does work with the Prims2 drivers.

Some one at D-Link sent me the following URL on the D-Link site that links to 3rd party providers of drivers for the respective chip sets used on this card. I hope this helps some of you that are struggling with this card. I've not tried any of these drivers as of yet, but when i do i'll post my results. Now I just need to figure out what version of the card i have. For everyone's reference, here are the chipsets used by all the revisions that I can find for the DWL-520 series of wi-fi cards.

I'm not going to look up drivers for all of them, but I've noted the ones that I know. I see from your other posts, you're currently on Red Hat 9. Here's a walk-through (as best I can since I don't have the actual card - I have a DWL-520+). Note, however, that it sounds like this may only work with kernels 2.4.20 and maybe a few others (I can't find any other drivers, so you may be stuck:-( if you don't have that kernel ( $ uname -r if you don't know what kernel you have). However, if you have a 2.6.x kernel, then you can use ndiswrapper (see bottom of this post). It's probably worth a shot, though, with whatever kernel you have. Joelwnelson: Then I don't think there is anything else if you have a 2.4.x kernel.

I'd suggest upgrading to a 2.6.x kernel and then you can use the ndiswrapper program that I pointed out to load the windoze drivers (I know that's against what Linux stands for, but it might be your only choice besides for ebay). Sorry the other stuff didn't help - that's why D-link is in my signature under 'bad companies'.

Dwl 520 Driver Windows 10

Could you just post the output of typing 'uname -r' as root in any command prompt (that'll be your kernel version), though? Dubya: Great username, first of all. Yes, the DWL-120 does work with the prism2 drivers (however, the DWL-120+ (PLUS) does not - it uses the acx100 drivers). If you are using a pre-built kernel (i.e. You didn't compile it yourself), then the kernel should have the driver already. Try doing '$ modprobe hermes' or '$ modprobe orinocopci' as root and that should give you something. Otherwise, it might even be built-in.

So then, you should be able to see 'wlan0' or 'eth0' if you type '$ iwconfig' as root. If the driver wasn't included by default (which I'd be surprised at), there are RPMs of the driver that you can download here:. Post back if / if not any of those work. By the way, if you want to just make sure that the system can see that there is a DWL-120 connected, type '$ lsusb' as root in any command prompt. Hey, First, thanks for your response. Second, it appears that I have bigger problems; it seems i don't have the commands modprobe, iwconfig or even lsusb even though I do have man pages for them.

I tried them both as root and not as root. Can I install them from my install discs? And finally, I don't think I do have Prism2 driver with my unmodified kernel. I looked under setting up a new ethernet connection and under a newwireless connection, are these the wrong places? Maybe I did a weird install since I seem to be missing all these things.

Anyway, again, I appreciate your help, and thanks again in advance.