[driverloader] D-Link DWL-510

[James Horey]

I may be completely off here, but I thought the Driverloader only supported 
54g chipsets. It sounds as though your device is not one of those (since you 
say it is an 802.11b card). Have you tried using any native Linux drivers?

-James Horey

On Monday 27 October 2003 12:05 pm, Adam Sjøgren wrote:
>   Hi.
>
>
> I've got a D-Link DWL-510 PCI card, which I'm told has a Broadcom
> chipset (it's a 802.11b card; 11Mbps).
>
> I've tried using DriverLoader on my Debian box (running a
> home-compiled 2.4.22) with the drivers provided on the cd (apparantly
> D-Link won't admit to making the DWL-510 - no drivers or anything on
> their website) - with this somewhat discouraging result:
>
>  /var/lib/driverloader/%%12%%\netdlwl.sys.sys: export not found: _allshr
> (ntoskrnl.exe) /var/lib/driverloader/%%12%%\netdlwl.sys.sys: export not
> found: RtlCompareMemory (ntoskrnl.exe)
> /var/lib/driverloader/%%12%%\netdlwl.sys.sys: export not found:
> WRITE_PORT_UCHAR (HAL.dll) /var/lib/driverloader/%%12%%\netdlwl.sys.sys:
> export not found: READ_PORT_UCHAR (HAL.dll)
> /var/lib/driverloader/%%12%%\netdlwl.sys.sys: export not found:
> WRITE_PORT_USHORT (HAL.dll) /var/lib/driverloader/%%12%%\netdlwl.sys.sys:
> export not found: READ_PORT_USHORT (HAL.dll)
> /var/lib/driverloader/%%12%%\netdlwl.sys.sys: export not found:
> NdisBufferVirtualAddress (NDIS.SYS)
> /var/lib/driverloader/%%12%%\netdlwl.sys.sys: export not found:
> NdisBufferLength (NDIS.SYS) /var/lib/driverloader/%%12%%\netdlwl.sys.sys:
> export not found: NdisMDeregisterIoPortRange (NDIS.SYS)
> /var/lib/driverloader/%%12%%\netdlwl.sys.sys: export not found:
> NdisMRegisterIoPortRange (NDIS.SYS)
> /var/lib/driverloader/%%12%%\netdlwl.sys.sys: export not found:
> NdisSystemProcessorCount (NDIS.SYS) unable to load
> "/var/lib/driverloader/%%12%%\netdlwl.sys.sys" (-6)
>
> I then tried with the Belkin drivers linked to on www.linuxant.com
> (there was a note about older Broadcom-drivers failing and a
> suggestion to try the Belkin drivers).
>
> I edited the netdlwl.inf to say bcmwl5.sys instead of netdlwl.sys, and
> got this instead:
>
>  PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0b.0
>  driverloader: NdisWriteErrorLogEntry: ErrorCode=3221230475
> NumberOfErrorValues=1 driverloader: NdisWriteErrorLogEntry: ErrorValue
> 0=0x9
>  kernel: eth1: failed to initialize adapter (err = -5)
>  kernel: eth1: Failed to register net device (-5)
>
> Looks a little better - but, alas, no go.
>
> Has anyone else tried getting a D-Link DWL-510 running with
> DriverLoader, should I try some other driver, give up entirely, or?
>
> (I've looked at Broadcom and D-Links websites, but didn't really find
> anything that looked more promising than what I've tried so far).
>
> If nothing else, this is a datapoint.
>
>
>   Best regards,
>
>     Adam.

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