Debian: DellD630 wireless network card installation (using ndiswrapper)

Debian: DellD630 wireless network card installation (using ndiswrapper) -- Linux Release Technology-Debian information. For more information, see the following. Dell D630, Dell Wireless 1390
Debian 2.6.18-5-686

Ndiswrapper is a tool used to install the Windows Wireless NIC Driver in LINUX.

Preparations:
1. The Chinese version of GNOME has been installed. You can use the Synaptic Package Manager.

2. Install the corresponding version of linux-header: (Synaptic Package Manager is also available)
Aptitude install linux-headers-$ (uname-r)
This is required for ndiswrapper compilation.

3. install wireless-tools:
Aptitude install wireless-tools
Iwconfig and iwlist toolkit are provided.

The procedure is as follows:
Download the latest ndiswrappersource code ndiswrapper from http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper

Compile and install ndiswrapper. It's easy to go to ndiswrapper/driver, and run make install in the utils directory to install the corresponding kernel modules and tools.

Install the winXP driver for the NIC:

Run ndiswrapper-I xxxxxxx. INF.

Run ndiswrapper-l to check whether the installation is successful? If "xxxxxx driver present, hardware present" is displayed, the installation is successful.

Load module and run ndiswrapper-m

Load the ndiswrapper module: modprobe ndiswrapper.

Iwconfig can see that the wlan0 device is up.

Modify the/etc/network/inteface file, write the wlan0 settings, and run/etc/init. d/network restart.

Add the following content to the/etc/network/interface file:
Auto wlan0
Iface wlan0 inet dhcp

Modify the wlan0 attribute in Gnome Network Tool. (You can use iwlist scanning to find a wireless network before that)