D-Link WIFI Card With Linux

[FN-GM]

Hi

 

A friends daughter has an old windows 98 Laptop, she would like a modern operating system so i am thinking of putting Linux on the machine. The laptop has a wireless D-link card that you plug in the side.

 

My question is what is the driver support for these cards? Will Linux have the drivers, can i get some?

 

I am considering the following distributions:

 

Ubuntu

Kunbuntu

Madrivia

Suse

 

Thanks A lot

[Geoff]

Can you find out the model number of the dlink card?

[FN-GM]

Yes i am going tomorrow i will let you know.

 

thanks

[arran]

If you've got the Windows driver for it you could try NDISwrapper to get it running.

[FN-GM]

Hi i got the Windows Driver.

 

It is a D-Link AirPlus XtremeG Wirless Cardbus Adapter DWL-G650

[Joedetic]

Ubuntu will probably support it tbh.

 

It seems to have no problem with all the various wifi cards i've had in the past both on-board, PCI and PCMCIA.

[FN-GM]

I have tried to install ubuntu the bios is to old and i can't find any newer versions.

[Ric_]

@FN-Greatermanchester: How can the BIOS be 'too old'? :?

 

I assume tha you mran that it won't boot from CD, in which case you need to create a boot floppy.

[webman]

Have you tried PCLinuxOS? Or a lighter version of it for less-able PCs - SAM Linux or TinyMe.

[ITWombat]

Have you tried PCLinuxOS? Or a lighter version of it for less-able PCs - SAM Linux or TinyMe.

 

Security! Security! This man wants to use something other than Ubuntu.

[tech_guy]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[Joedetic]

Ohhhh i could throw a spanner in the linux based works and suggest some kind of BSD based OS.

 

My server runs FreeBSD but i've never really tried it as a desktop OS and it's wifi support is probably horrid.

[FN-GM]

According to Ubuntu the BIOS has to be above the year 1999

[Geoff]

Presumably you mean you get the following error?

PANIC: CPU too old for this kernel

The current workaround for this:

1. Boot the machine from the CD, choose to ‘Rescue a broken system’.

2. Get a shell in your installed system.

3. If /boot contains the generic kernel, then it’s the CD’s /boot; unmount it and mount it to get your machine’s /boot in there.

4. aptitude install linux-generic

5. Reboot and choose the generic kernel in GRUB.