D-Link DWA-125 on Linux Ubuntu 10.04

This post will show you how to install the D-Link DWA-125 Wireless USB adapter on Linux Ubuntu 10.04 in the VMware environment.

All the software that you need to achieve the installation is available here.

Firstly, as shown in the following video, you need to install Linux Ubuntu on VMware. You need the file ubuntu1004-vmt.zip. Uncompress it in some directory. Under VMware, open the file named Ubuntu.vmx, from the uncompressed directory.

The default user is “user”. The password for  both “user” and “root” is “password”.

Download and uncompress the file that contains the driver for the DWA-125: DPO_RT3070_LinuxSTA_V2.3.0.4_20100604.tar.bz2.

The following video shows how to install the driver for the DWA-125. In summary, you have to “cd” to the directory where the driver has been uncompressed. Using the Linux command “su”, you switch user to root mode. Then you enter “make” to compile the driver. You need to create the system directory “/etc/Wireless”, where you copy the file “RT2870STA.dat”. Finally, you “cd” to “os/linux” and install the driver as a module using the Linux command “insmod”.

You are now ready to start using the driver. On VMware, Ubuntu needs to be explicitly connected to the D-Link DWA-125 USB adapter as shown in the following video.

After a few seconds, the DWA-125 USB adapter starts blinking, showing normal operation. The Linux command “iwconfig” can be used to inspect and change the configuration of the interface to the adapter.

Good luck!