Review on 🔌 D-Link DWL-G510 Wireless PCI Adapter: Fast 54 Mbps, 802.11g Connectivity by Ellington Gardner

I was pleasantly surprised at how difficult it is to set up and run wireless on Linux. Worse, if you opt for a quad-core processor (which I did) things get even more complicated. Linux is not to blame here; Manufacturers do not write drivers for Linux. To make matters worse, they (for the most part) refuse to disclose information about their hardware. If they did at least the latter, the community would be writing a driver for this card in no time. I have an Intel Quad Core, 500GB SATA drive on an Intel motherboard. I don't know if the card works with ndiswrapper but I got it working with madwifi. madwifi supports the Atheros chipset (in both 32-bit and 64-bit environments) and this card uses the Atheros chipset. I *think* a version that uses the Marvell chipset. The only card that I know of that uses the Marvell chipset supported by Linux is the D-Link card. Stay away from MARVELL FOR LINUX chipsets! Download and install madwifi. I didn't use the .ymp download and just compiled it myself. After installation, run (as root or with sudo): sudo /sbin/modprobe ath_pcisudo /sbin/ifconfig ath0 upsudo /usr/sbin/iwconfig ath0 essid "(Your SID value here)"sudo / sbin/dhclient ath0 The line in front of you probably won't even need the latter as it will automatically connect to the strongest signal. The last line allows you to get the IP address via dhcp. Check out the madwifi beginner's section to learn how to get this far. So you are connected and everything is fine. However, the next time you boot, you'll have to do it again. So open Yast and go to Network Devices and then to Network Card. You should see a WiFi map there. Set it up and make sure you select the option so everything runs at boot. Last note. When you run lspci to check the chipset, it doesn't show up with the word "Wireless" anywhere. For me (I have version 1) it showed up as an Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (version 01). When I first plugged in my computer I didn't notice this line and thought my computer couldn't see it. I thought I might have a bum card so I plugged it into one of my windows machines and it worked fine. I put it back in my Linux box, looked closely and saw the line. I had no failures and am connected to a router one floor and diagonally below me. Speed seems to be what you'd expect from broadband, although I haven't tested it. This is my first d-link product and I couldn't be happier.