D-Link DWL-G510 in CentOS 5
Some days ago I spent some time getting a PCI WiFi 802.11G network card to work in CentOS 5.4. My card identifies itself as a "D-Link System Inc AirPlus G DWL-G510" (PCI id 1186:3c09) and uses the "RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11g" chipset (PCI id 1814:0302)
A driver for this card is included in the standard CentOS 5 kernel (tested with kernel-2.6.18-164.9.1.el5) under the name rt61pci, however to be able to function a binary firmware is needed. Some searching revealed that the firmware is available in Fedora's rt61pci-firmware package. I rebuilt the package and put it in my CentOS playground repository.
So, if you have such a card and want to make it work in CentOS5 you might want to try running rpm -ivh http://rpm.resare.com/centos5-playground/i386/rt61pci-firmware-1.2-6.el5.noarch.rpm as root. Once that is done, running modprobe rt61pci should do the trick.
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DLink DWL-G510 and Ralink Chipset…
If you have a network wireless nic like the Dlink DWL-G510 (that have a Ralink chipset), and you encounter some BSOD with RT61.sys, you may have to try to download the specified driver for the Nic from the Ralink siste here. Go to Software, chose your …
Hi,
Was this on an i386 or x86_64 kernel?
I’ve been trying to get my WMP54GS to work with ndiswrapper under x86_64. I’m rapidly losing my cool and I may just buy another card. It works fine with i386.
Regards,
Nige.
I haven’t tried x86_64, the machine I have access to is i386 only. Sorry