Making my usb wireless adapter work in Mepis 3.4 Linux

[Smike]

I need it so I can connect to my home network, and thus the interent.

It's a D-Link DWL-G122 USB adapter revision B1.

Doing some basic searching, I've found out about something called NdisWrapper, but after following instructions here I still couldn't get it to work, although I think it did detect the adapter, and managed to light it up a bit, it just couldn't connect.

Acoording to a link from that page, there is a native linux driver that might work, but I don't know how to install it.

...help, please? I'm a Linux newbie.

PS: I have reinstalled Mepis since I did the thing with NdisWrapper, so I'd have to redo it if neccessary.

 

[prewitt81]

I have a Netgear WG111v2 wireless router, and Linux hates it. Even with ndiswrapper, I could only use the internet for about an hour or so before it decided to become unresponsive.

Anyways, after Linux sees the adapter, have you tried the command

dhcpcd wlan0 (replacing wlan0 with whatever linux calls your adapter)?

I am less than a n00b, so all I can really tell you is that this command got me internet connection when Linux saw my adapter but I couldn't connect to the net.

Hope it helps.

 

[prewitt81]

Apparently MEPIS doesn't have dhcpcd installed. You can get it, or you might try

pump -i wlan0

 

[Smike]

Thanks for the advice, but I don't seem to have pump either. I have tried installing Mepis 6 (beta), which comes with the native driver installed. It can see my card (it appears when I run iwconfig), but if I do iwlist rausb0 scan, it doesn't find anything.

I think that when I used ndiswrapper with Mepis 3.4, ti did find my network after scanning, so I might try using that again...

Any more help? Anyone?