I am trying to configure my dlink dwl-520 wireless card within Suse 9.0. I read up on it and found that I have revision E1. I believe that this means that my card is Prism2.5 based. After I installed the card suse detected it and attempted to configure it. All went well but after I restarted my network services the service failed. D-link has links to the linux-wlan-ng drivers. I uncompress, ./configure, make all, make install. All goes well. Then I add the portion to the /etc/modules.conf file that the README described. Now the only thing that I havent done that the README described was adding some lines given to the "rc.local" file so that the module(s) are loaded. I have searched for the file but cant find it. Anyone out there using Suse 9 know where it is? Otherwise is there a startup script that I can put the info in to load my module? Has anyone out there actually got the dwl-520E to work within linux? Any help is much appreciated :) Mike

ok I just found ou that the "E" revision of the DWL-520 has a new feature "short serial flash" which means that I need to download the firmware I believe. I'll try that! Mike

Hey! I am trying to do the same.... I have a DWL-520 wireless card (Revision E) and I am tring to have it installed in my RedHat 9.0 OS I have been successful up to the point of finding the rc.local file, however, I have no idea WHERE the lines should be added! Also, I don't know whether or not, after running so much code, we have to do anything with the network settings of Linux. My PC has two cards, one that is a ¨wired¨ network card [Linksys LNE100TX] and the DWL-520. I installe the LNE100TX first and it took me sometime to figure it out. At the end, I remember I had to go to Network Settings and chose a card that was ¨DEC 24*40 and clones¨, so I wonder whether or not something similar has to be done for the DWL-520 PCI card! If you have an answer to these, please email me... HEEEEEELLLPp! Thank you people! Carlos

Hi, I have the same card dwl520 e. I got the linux-wlan-ng drivers and they built fine on Debian SID. That isn't to say that they work however. As for the rc.local problem (quote from the README) "Just make sure it is brought up early in the process, namely, before the the network interfaces are brought up. " After building the drivers: sudo modprobe prism2_pci mz@cromag:~$ lsmod Module Size Used by prism2_pci 70784 0 p80211 29840 1 prism2_pci No problem (yet) $ sudo wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable message=lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable resultcode=implementation_failure I think bauer172uw is right - we need to flash the firmware. I found this: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/dev/linux-wlan/2004-q1/0001.html I'll be working on it over the next few days although I'm a bit short on time right now. I'll post back with what happens.

Look here: http://home.columbus.rr.com/andrewbarr/dwl520e1.html And here: http://lists.linux-wlan.com/pipermail/linux-wlan-devel/2003-December/002823.html "> The DWL-520 E1 is the first (released) small serial flash prism device. > This means there's no on-board firmware for the driver to communicate > with. Which means initialization will fail without a firmware load." Well that's exactly what's happening. :) I guess it's time to flash the firmware eh?

It works! The howto I posted a link to above works quite well and is not at all hard. The only thing I couldn't get to work was bringing up the wlan interface properly. That was quickly remedied by using dhclient (apt-get install dhcp3-client). Thanks to Andrew for writing the howto and for saving the game late in the 9th with the dhclient tip.