Unbutu 7.10 , Fedora 8 , Mandriva 8 DOES NOT allow Wireless connection most of the time. WHY?

Question

Here's my experience trying to get my wireless card D-Link-G132 working with linux. First let me tell you that the DWL-G132 is one of the most powerful & expensive wireless card on the market. You will imagine it will be supported by linux ??:)

I download Ubuntu 7.10. But bizarrely won't ask for a root password during the installation.
The card was not supported after battling for 3 hours. Tried Ndiswrapper 1.51 amd Madwifi. Not working. Also could not go to the "SU" I bet you have an idea why??LOL

Tried Mandriva 8 came very close to get it working. But it failed
Mandriva does not allow the "make install" of ndiswrapper 1.51. Why? No idea. I had no issue with Fedora 8 to make install.

Finally tried Fedora 8. The reboot of Fedora 8 was full of errors but finally loaded. Fedora 8 had about 25 wireless cards but of course mine was not supported.
Tried to install Ndisrapper however The Kernel shows errors. Linux STOP Copying Windows and make WIRELESS FRIENDLY. .God.

I want to add that I also had the assistance of linux experts in the Yahoo linux chat rooms. None could not make it working. They all told me that Linux was NOT wireless friendly at all.

Answer 1

Well the issue is with DLINK not linux. If Dlink provided the correct driver then your issue would not exist!

Try using a wifi adapter that is LINUX friendly not trying to force a WINDOWS adapter to work on linux! USB is the worst type to try to use with Linux (their are some that work but not many.)

Get a good PCMCIA adapter or a good Atheros or Broadcom internal card and it will just work!
Orinoco has some very good cards as do many others.
Normally you want adapters that support the OS not asking the OS to support all adapters!

Would be nice if all the wifi manufacturers would supply the full set of drivers for ALL OS (Windows, Linux, Mac, etc) but they don't! I support those that DO and you should too.

Answer 2

Anyone who reads

more than

3

lines

in

a

Ubuntu

FAQ

knows

that

root

is

disabled

in Ubuntu. SU - same fate.

You need to RTFM!!!! SU** is the command, not root, not SU.

Anyway, you haven't gotten this far, so no wonder your D-Link wireless doesn't work (that and the fact that D-Link doesn't provide drivers - hardware mfgrs provide the drivers, or the specs so linux hackers can write drivers - D-Link doesn't cooperate - blame them, not Linux!).