I can also confirm that this driver is buggy. I have D-Link DWL-G510 rev C2 (RT61) that I tried to use on a fresh Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10-i386 install (updated up to date by 2007-12-18). The hardware is detected and scan the area just fine. It finds my wifi-network, but I can't connect to it (WPA/WPA2-protected). I read something about disabling SMP and PREEMPT, and rebuild the kernel to make the CVS-driver work correctly, but that workaround will generate a lot of work to keep the kernel up to date in the near future, I guess.
I ended up solving the problem by installing ndiswrapper and use the xp-drivers bundled with the hardware (version 5.00). I did as follows: $ echo 'blacklist rt61pci' | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist $ sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 ndiswrapper-common ndisgtk And then I started the graphical ndisgtk from "System > Administration > Windows Wireless drivers". The hardware was found automatically and I added the drivers directly from the bundled install-cd ( /cdrom/Drivers/Drivers/Win2kXP/NetRt61G.INF ). At last I rebooted and after that it has worked 99% of the time together with network-manager (the wifi-card looses signal strength down to ~20% some short periods of time, but nothing that has affected the connectivity). I will keep it this way until there is a working, stable, native driver available in the main repository. I hope this can help some of you that want to get your DWL-G510-card working. -- [gutsy] rt61 wireless stops working after several minutes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/139832 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
