DWL-G122 and support for Linux

Hi folks,

I got a very nice USB device: DWL-G122: D-Link 802.11g wireless USB adapter.
However, I did not manage to make it work under Linux.
When I type lsusb command I get: ID 2001:3703. Besides that, on the device's
case it is written H/W Ver.: A1.

Did anyone manage to make it work? Could you please advise me what to do?
So far I was not even able to see any of the light emitting diodes light.

Thanks in advance.

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 02:25:24 -0500, Adiemo wrote:

> I got a very nice USB device: DWL-G122: D-Link 802.11g wireless USB
> adapter. However, I did not manage to make it work under Linux. When I
> type lsusb command I get: ID 2001:3703. Besides that, on the device's
> case it is written H/W Ver.: A1.


I've tried that one too. It should work with prism54-drivers
(prism54.org), but those drivers do not have support for USB yet.


One thing that is said to work is using ndiswrapper. That makes use of the
w32-drivers so that you can use the card as a client to connect to
access-points.


Since I intended to use it for detecting rouge access-points with kismet
and therefore needed to be able to put the card in monitor mode I swapped
it for a 3Com pc-card instead. (3CRWE154G72 - version 1.0 (warning: stay
away from version 2.0 that does not work with prism54))

That card also uses prism54-drivers and works fine.




> Did anyone manage to make it work? Could you please advise me what to
> do? So far I was not even able to see any of the light emitting diodes
> light.


Are you interested in connecting to one or more access-points only, then
try ndiswrapper. If you need more from the card, then you should return it
or swap to another card.

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