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D-Link DWL-G510 Wireless PCI Adapter, 802.11g, 54 Mbps | List Price: $49.99
Discount Price: $29.00
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Brand: D-Link
Binding: Electronics
Features: - Up to 54 Mbps
- Compatible with 802.11g and 802.11b
- Increased Wireless Security with 802.1x and WPA
- Great for Video Streaming
- Quick and Easy Installation
Vista Incompatible [Posted on 2007-05-16]
You must first install the software, then shut down, then install card, then power up and configure. Unfortunately, you cannot install the software if you are running any version of Vista. D-Link tech support apologizes for this known issue and suggests downloading their Vista driver Beta which they describe as 'unstable.' Huh?
Great product in my experiences [Posted on 2007-11-26]
I was simply stunned to see such low ratings for this card. I have installed this card using ubuntu linux, which worked great and effortlessly. I have also installed this card on windows xp, and have had just excellent experiences. It picks up a great signal in areas where other cards don't. I even picked up one of these used from ebay and installed it in an old computer running windows 98, and it worked fantastic. I am really just shocked to see such bad reviews for this card. In my experiences, it has been infallible.
It's been reliable [Posted on 2007-11-26]
I've had it over a year now and it's been pretty flawless. Haven't had any issues with it whatsoever.
Works with OpenSuse Linux 10.3 64 Bit [Posted on 2008-02-18]
I was pretty shocked at how difficult it was to get wireless up and running with linux. Worse, if you decide to go with a quad core processor (which I did), things are even more difficult. Linux is not the culprit here; manufacturers don't write drivers for linux. What's worse, they refuse (for the most part) to release their hardware information. If they did at least the latter, the community would write a driver in no time for that card.
I have a quad core intel processor, 500 GB sata drive on an intel motherboard. I don't know if the card would work with ndiswrapper, but I got it to work with madwifi. madwifi supports the atheros chipset (in both 32 and 64 bit environments) and this card uses the atheros chipset. I *believe* in one version, it uses the marvell chipset. The only card that uses the marvell chipset (that I'm aware of) that linux supports is the d-link one. STAY AWAY FROM MARVELL CHIPSETS FOR LINUX!
Download madwifi and install it. I didn't use a .ymp download and just compiled it myself. Once installed, run the following (as root or with sudo):
sudo /sbin/modprobe ath_pci
sudo /sbin/ifconfig ath0 up
sudo /usr/sbin/iwconfig ath0 essid "(your sid value here)"
sudo /sbin/dhclient ath0
The line before the last you probably don't even need as it auto connects to the strongest signal. The last line allows you to get an ip address via dhcp. Check out the newbie howto section of madwifi for the details on getting this far.
So you're connected and everything's all good. However, the next time you boot up, you'll have to do this again. So open up Yast and go to Network Devices then Network Card. You should see the wireless card there. Configure it and make sure you pick the option to have everything started up on boot.
One last note. If you run lspci to check the chipset, it doesn't show up with the word "wireless" in there anywhere. For me (I have rev 1), it showed up as
Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01)
The first time I stuck in my computer, I didn't notice this line and thought my computer wasn't picking it up. I thought I might have a bum card, so stuck it in one of my windows machines and it worked fine. I stuck it back in my linux box and looked carefully and saw the line.
I haven't had any disconnects and I'm connected to a router one floor and diagonally below me. The speed seems to be what you would expect from broadband, although I haven't benchmarked it. This is my first d-link product and I couldn't be happier.
This thing rocks [Posted on 2008-04-05]
This little guy replaced a spotty adapter i had before and it is doing an amazing job. I no longer have to worry about Ethernet cables and fighting usb adapters. I highly recommend getting and using this wireless adapter.
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