D-Link DWL 520+ in SuSe 9

[sshe11]

I've been trying to install the wireless drivers for my D-Link DWL 520+ card but no luck .... SuSe lists my cards in Hardware Section but doesnt recognize it when i try to add a Wireless Card .... i got the drivers off the SourceForge site but they dont install properly .... still shows my card as "Other" .....

Any ideas ?

[hard candy]

This (http://www.joot.com/dave/writings/articles/wireless-linux-howto.html)
is a howto for Mandrake, you'll need to adapt some things to Suse. Make sure the correct kernel sources are installed. It specifically uses the 520+ card as the example.

[mdwatts]

http://support.dlink.com/faq/view.asp?prod_id=1387

and the 'Read This' link

http://www.ivor.it/wireless/acx.html

[sshe11]

I got it to install, and i can ping my router ... but when i try pinging a site on the Internet it doesnt work "Hostname cannot be resolved" and also i cannot access the router config. page even though i can ping it !!

Any suggesstions ?

[mdwatts]

Did you configure the gateway address and the isp dns servers (/etc/resolv.conf)?

[sshe11]

Well i have one line in there:

nameserver 192.168.0.1 (my router's IP)

Anything wrong ? Do i need some more lines ?

[hard candy]

Try "192.168.1.1" for the router address.

[sshe11]

But my routers IP is 192.168.0.1, and it says its connected to router ..

[sshe11]

I also tried adding these lines first:

nameserver 206.47.244.12
nameserver 206.47.244.89

It still didnt work ... so i also added this line:

gateway 64.230.104.9


I also setup a route by "route add default gw 192.168.0.1 eth1" ....

Again it pings my router fine but not Internet ...

Please help !!!

[mdwatts]

I have a Linksys router (ip address of 192.168.1.1) and have 192.168.1.1 as my gateway address and

nameserver 192.168.1.1
search mdwsystems.net

in /etc/resolv.conf. The router is set for dhcp (external) and dhcp is disabled for internal since I use static ip addressing for all my pc's/laptops.

/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0

BOOTPROTO='static'
BROADCAST='192.168.1.255'
IPADDR='192.168.1.4'
MTU=''
NETMASK='255.255.255.0'
NETWORK='192.168.1.0'
REMOTE_IPADDR=''
STARTMODE='onboot'
UNIQUE='ZcKW.SYXZLk83VE3'

[sshe11]

I got a IP 192.168.0.1 when my router is the same IP ! How is this possible ??

So i changed my routers IP to 192.168.1.1

I have the router's DHCP to give static IP's w/ MAC addresses so i always get 192.168.1.100 in XP ... which should work in Linux as well 'coz MAC address is the same.....My card can see the network fine and also connects to it 'coz i can see my router's MAC address ....


I still get the same IP as my router !!!! no matter what i change my router IP to ...

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by sshe11
I got a IP 192.168.0.1 when my router is the same IP ! How is this possible ??

So i changed my routers IP to 192.168.1.1


What shows you have the same 192.168.0.1 address? ifconfig for eth0?

You don't need to change the routers ip address.

[sshe11]

Yup ifconfig shows intr addr: 192.168.1.1 which is my routers IP

[hard candy]

I would try and switch your router to dhcp, see what address it gives your computer then. Make sure all other ethernet cards are shut down. Maybe it might help to unplug the router and let it boot back up first before you turn the computer back on. See what happens.

[sshe11]

My router is setup as a DHCP and gives out IP's as per the MAC address ... How do i know if my router is giving my Linux box an IP at all ? Maybe its just linux assigning itself an internal IP address ?

[hard candy]

"/sbin/ifconfig" will give you the corrct address, to see what the router is showing as the ip address , check the "status" in the Linksys router (http://192.168.1.1) and open the "local network", and click on the DHCP client table. This should show all then DHCP clients and their addresses.