And I really stress somehow.
My head was almost flattened from the proverbial brick wall, when suddenly I was connected to my router, through my D-Link DWL G510. This wasn’t my first choice of wireless card, but I was getting desparate and sick of using a ethernet cable through the apartment. I really should have researched before buying.
Getting it working was a drama, and I’m going to have to try doing it again on some fresh installs of Ubuntu/Xubuntu, or I will never be sure how I got it working. Windows was no better, but that’s another story altogether.
First stop was the Ubuntu Community Documentation (Wiki) for info on the Wireless cards. According to the Wireless Cards Supported page, my adapter should be using the RT61 drivers.
The instructions for the RT61 drivers were pretty straightforward. I was able to compile them without any problems.
Except that the card didn’t work after that.
I also found this great page in the documentation; Wireless Trouble Shooting Guide. There is a wealth of information and commands that can be used to determine the status f your card.
I could see the ra0 interface when I used the command iwconfig, yet it wasn’t getting an IP address. I tried turning of the Router WPA key, installing WiFi Radar,
GTK-WiFi, which look like great tools to have. But all no avail …
… until suddenly it just worked. Which is great, but I really want to know what I have to do to make it work next time, without going through hours of installing/uninstalling, re-configurating, etc.
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