how to get D-Link DWA-525 working on Ubuntu 10.04

[Golesy]

Hey guys,

so today i bought myself the DWA-525 wireless PCI desktop card, and had a heck of a time installing it in ubuntu 10.04, until i found this! So i thought i'd share it with others who are in the same situation! I tried to make this a noob friendly as possible

MAKE SURE THE CARD IS NOT IN YOUR COMPUTER BEFORE STARTING!!


0. Remove the PCI card from the computer (if you plugged it in already)

1. Download the attached file (i didn't make this, and i don't know where i found it, its a result of 4 hours of digging through the net )

2.unzip the file

3.open a terminal and find the unzipped folder

4.once in the folder type "make" and hit enter

5.When that's done, type "sudo make install" and hit enter

6.once thats complete, turn off your pc and plug in the card

7. turn on your pc... and DONE! it should be working wonderfully now! or at least it did for me. good luck anyone trying this!

[Arte Aplicada]

Man, I tried EVERYTHING in the last 2 months, and the only thing that worked was THIS. I was as simple as installing the drivers with the card disconected! AMAZING!

Thanks! I love you!

Jorge.-

[chuck.tweedy]

I just used the above zipped driver code with 10.10 (beta) & a DWA525 - It worked!!
Thanks - I've been trying for a week to get this thing online
You rock Golesy

[Melnarie]

Thanks Golesy this thing works perfectly!

Oh..and a hint, you don't even have to remove the card, i forgot, and was sure i made a mistake...but hey...it works!

[TeaFiend]

Yay, it worked (after hours of stuffing around)! I also didn't have to remove the card. Thanks so much.

[TeaFiend]

I found where the driver came from: http://ftp.dlink.ru/pub/Wireless/DWA-525/Drivers/Linux/

I was a bit worried about it being an alpha version, but I guess coming directly from a d-link site gives it a bit more credibility, though I couldn't find an actual link to the driver the from the Australian, US or Russian sites.

[jratliff]

Thanks a lot. This saved me untold time and frustration. It worked without removing the card - just needed a reboot after installing.

[Lloyd Welch]

I was abit scared, but after following the instructions; I was able to get it to work.

THANKS!!

[eldudorinio]

Hi,

The driver seems to have installed correctly, but I cannot seem to connect to my wireless router.

What I get from lshw -C network:

*-network:1
description: Wireless interface
product: RaLink
vendor: RaLink
physical id: c
bus info: pci@0000:02:0c.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 00
serial: f0:7d:68:5f:4c:2b
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800pci driverversion=2.6.35-22-generic-pae firmware=N/A latency=64 maxlatency=4 mingnt=2 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn

And this is what I get from iwconfig:

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off


I have also configured the SSID, MAC Address and password (WPA Personal) of my router in the Network Connections.

Could it be that my wireless adapter does not work properly?
Any help is much appreciated :)

[eldudorinio]

Hi,

After following the steps in these threads:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...76&postcount=4
and
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...65&postcount=4

I managed to get the wireless adapter to work.

Basically the only thing I was missing was to blacklist rt2800pci driver in the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf file

Also in the 2nd link I mention above you can find newer drivers to the ones posted a few posts above

Thanks