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The final steps of installing D-Link DWL-G520+ on Fedora Core 5

This is how I installed my D-Link DWL-G520+ wlan card on Fedora Core 5 (FC5). This card has Texas Instruments chipset and needs the acx111 driver.

  1. Follow the instructions found at the acx100.sourceforge.net homepage.
  2. Add “alias wlan0 acx” at the botom of the file /etc/modprobe.conf
  3. Check that “chkconfig --list NetworkManager” says “:on” under runlevel 3 and 5
    If not execute “chkconfig --level 35 NetworkManager on” and check again.
  4. Run “depmod -a
  5. Restart the computer. (I do not think have to do this, but you’ll never know.)
  6. You should now be able to see your wlan card in the GUI-based Network Configuration tool found under System->Administration->Network (in KDE.. Will swich to Gnome soon).

This is what did the trick for me and I think i have remembered everything. I used kernel 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5-i686 and driver version acx-20060521. Well, no that I am onlie i should upgrade my system and do it all over again with the newest kernel ang gnome.. I’ll update this post if I find any major differences.

Good Luck!

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