D-link DWL-610 Linux Driver <

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Looking for a driver for the DWL-610?

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After looking a while on the net I could not find a linux driver for the D-link DWL-610 PCMCIA wireless card. Until I discovered that the card uses a Realtek RTL8180L chip, for which realtek offers a gpl-driver (but with a closed source part :-(). After altering the Makefile for my kernel and the compilation I had a driver. It did not work out of the box, because it was unable to find the card. I opened the source (r8180_pci_init.c) and started working...

I found out it had to do with the vendor id and the device id. So basically I looked them up with the help of lspci -v (yes it works with pcmcia cards too...?) I modified the source, changed the module name and compiled again. Now it loads and makes a working dwl610.o module! ATTENTION:you need to use a 2.4.18 or 2.4.20 kernel or it will not work!! I use the Debian 2.4.20 kernel source. There is also a sample script to get you surfing.

Get the source here: dwl610.tar.gz

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