I'm not the original author of the software and the license of this code is unknown yet. This is just my personal work to make the software run on modern Linux distros
devolo dLAN Software Package for Linux
Version 6.1, 2010-07-08
Copyright (c) 2006-2010 devolo AG, Aachen (Germany)
This package contains software to find and configure your devolo dLAN devices on a Linux system.
The software has been tested on Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch) with GCC 4.1.2 and on Debian 5.0 (lenny) with GCC 4.3.2, but every platform with recent Linux and GCC versions should work fine.
To build the software, change into the directory where the makefile is located and call 'make':
$ make
After compilation, you should find two binaries in the same directory:
$ ls dlan* dlanlist dlanpasswd
Install them by calling 'make install' with root privileges:
$ sudo make install
Use dlanlist to get an overwiev over all dLAN devices in your network, to see information about their firmware version, and to see connection speeds for devices connected via PowerLine.
Use dlanpasswd to assign an encryption password to a dLAN device. You need to assign a common password to your devices in order to get them connected via PowerLine. Call dlanpasswd without arguments to get command line help.
These tools need root privileges, because they use raw sockets to send and receive full ethernet frames. Installing them with 'make install' takes care of this by setting the setuid bit, allowing non privileged users to use them.