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I plugged my USB wifi card and on /var/log/message I can see that new hardware has been found

Sep 17 16:21:34 bt kernel: [43049.422451] usb 1-2: USB disconnect, device number 5
Sep 17 16:21:40 bt kernel: [43055.436615] usb 1-2: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci_hcd

With lsusb I can see:

Bus 001 Device 006: ID 2001:3a03 D-Link Corp. DWL-G132 (no firmware) [Atheros AR5523]

It seems to be a driver problem. Where can I found a tutorial to install and configure (add to interface) my USB WiFi card?

------ UPDATE --------
After some try using ndiswrapper (I was able to install my network card but, this is the output message:

dmesg | grep -e rt2 -e rt3 -e wlan
[ 5318.598255] Registered led device: rt2800usb-phy0::radio
[ 5318.598282] Registered led device: rt2800usb-phy0::assoc
[ 5318.598309] Registered led device: rt2800usb-phy0::quality
[ 5318.598407] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2800usb
[ 5321.021254] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready

Cheers!

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  • It is one of those cards that does not seem to have a proper driver for Linux. You can find a guide how to still get it to work using ndiswrapper, that uses Windows drivers to get the hardware configured. Try google.com/search?q=DWL-G132+linux+driver
    – jpe
    Sep 17, 2012 at 18:16
  • Now it seems working fine but I get this message: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready Sep 18, 2012 at 16:37
  • There may be a conflict of multiple drivers claiming the device or firmware not loading correctly. Make sure the firmware is available and gets loaded etc. dmesg | grep rt2800 would be of interest. Try google.com/search?q=rt2800usb+wlan0:+link+is+not+ready
    – jpe
    Sep 19, 2012 at 7:37

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