DWL-520 V.E1 won't see?

[GodKneelsB4Me]

So I installed 9.04 onto my sister's computer, and, unlike Slackware, it configures a wlan0 connection right away. However, I can't tell if the the card actually has competent drivers running it or if it is just configuring a connection to configure it. The results of ifconfig wlan0

Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric: 1
RX Packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX Packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0B) TX bytes:0 (0.0B)
Interrupt:16

I'm reasonably sure that means that the card is not working. What drivers do you guys suggest? I'll be cross posting this entire post onto the ubuntu forums for max support.

I also executed lspci and it shows that the card is present as Network Controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01)

Also, while trying to install linux-wlan-ng, I get this:

 
channah@hannah-desktop:~$ cd /home/hannah/Desktop/linux*
hannah@hannah-desktop:~/Desktop/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.9$ su 
Password:                        
su: Authentication failure               
hannah@hannah-desktop:~/Desktop/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.9$ su
Password:                       
su: Authentication failure               
hannah@hannah-desktop:~/Desktop/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.9$ sudo make config

-------------- Linux WLAN Configuration Script -------------

The default responses are correct for most users.

Build Prism2.x PCMCIA Card Services (_cs) driver? (y/n) [n]: 
Build Prism2 PLX9052 based PCI (_plx) adapter driver? (y/n) [n]: 
Build Prism2.5 native PCI (_pci) driver? (y/n) [y]:       
Build Prism2.5 USB (_usb) driver? (y/n) [y]:           

Linux source directory [/lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/build]: 











The kernel source tree is version 2.6.28-11-generic.
******* WARNING WARNING WARNING *******       
Kernels newer than 2.6.24.x are not supported.   
******* WARNING WARNING WARNING *******       
The current kernel build date is #42-Ubuntu Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 2009.

Alternate target install root directory on host []:  Module install directory [/lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic]:                        
It looks like you have a System V init file setup.               


Prefix for build host compiler? (rarely needed) []: 
Build for debugging (see doc/config.debug) (y/n) [n]: 

Configuration successful. Now type 'make' and pray.

hannah@hannah-desktop:~/Desktop/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.9$ 
hannah@hannah-desktop:~/Desktop/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.9$ 
hannah@hannah-desktop:~/Desktop/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.9$ 
hannah@hannah-desktop:~/Desktop/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.9$ 
hannah@hannah-desktop:~/Desktop/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.9$ 
hannah@hannah-desktop:~/Desktop/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.9$ 
hannah@hannah-desktop:~/Desktop/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.9$ sudo make all
set -e; for d in src doc man etc; do make -C $d ; done
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/hannah/Desktop/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.9/src'
set -e; for d in mkmeta shared wlanctl nwepgen wlancfg p80211 prism2; do make WLAN_SRC=/home/hannah/Desktop/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.9/src/ -C $d ; done
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/hannah/Desktop/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.9/src/mkmeta'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `../shared/p80211types.c', needed by `.depend'. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/hannah/Desktop/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.9/src/mkmeta'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hannah/Desktop/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.9/src'
make: *** [all] Error 2
hannah@hannah-desktop:~/Desktop/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.9$ sudo make install
find . -name .depend -exec rm {} \;
set -e; for d in src doc man etc; do make -C $d install ; done
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/hannah/Desktop/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.9/src'
set -e; for d in mkmeta shared wlanctl nwepgen wlancfg p80211 prism2; do make WLAN_SRC=/home/hannah/Desktop/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.9/src/ -C $d install ; done
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/hannah/Desktop/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.9/src/mkmeta'
echo "Nothing to install"
Nothing to install
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/hannah/Desktop/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.9/src/mkmeta'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/hannah/Desktop/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.9/src/shared'
Nothing to do...
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/hannah/Desktop/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.9/src/shared'
make: Entering an unknown directory
make: *** wlanctl: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: Leaving an unknown directory
make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hannah/Desktop/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.9/src'
make: *** [install] Error 2
hannah@hannah-desktop:~/Desktop/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.9$

[kevinc]

Re: DWL-520 V.E1 won't see?

Before you start removing or adding other drivers, it might help to provide more details about your setup.

To what sort of wireless network are you trying to connect? WEP, WPA, unencoded or ?

Are you using Network Manager (KDE) or wicd or something else to manage the network?
Network Manager is the default in KDE - if you haven't done anything, it's that one.

ifconfig

will show you active network connections