D-Link On Vixta Linux

[geoffreygore]

I just bought the D-Link AirPlus G DWL-G630 for my laptop since my old card wasn't working. Is there a way to get the linux drivers for this card?

[bigtomrodney]

I was under the impression this card should be Atheros. I installed one for my Dad recently and it worked out of the box. Can you post the output of

/sbin/lspci

That should tell us about the chipset it's using. If there's not a native driver you should be able to use ndiswrapper with the Windows driver to get going.

[geoffreygore]

the entire output (+ the input)
bash-3.2$ /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 [Brookdale] Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 [Brookdale] Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 42)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801CAM IDE U100 Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 440 Go] (rev a3)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 7
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4451 PC card Cardbus Controller
02:01.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4451 PC card Cardbus Controller
02:01.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI4451 IEEE-1394 Controller
02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4309 802.11a/b/g (rev 03)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01)

The Wireless Network Card:
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01)

[jayd512]

What is the output of

/sbin/iwconfig

[geoffreygore]

Okay, I did a little troubleshooting, and it finally recognized my wifi card. now, however when I try and give it a password for a WPA-secured wifi, it asks for a default keyring password. what is this, and how do I get it?

[jayd512]

See if this link is of any help:
Change gnome-keyring password? - Ubuntu Forums