Linksys Wireless USB Mandrake 9.2

[lauroy8]

Does not recognize the device. Are there drivers for this?
Help !!
WUSB11 ver2.8 Linksys Wireless USB 802.11b

Thanks for any help.

[washe]

welcome to a pain to get it work....

you have two choices.

www.linuxant.com (charge)
ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net (free, but you need to have some linux knoweldge)

[vass0922]

Or you can go to www.linux-wlan.com they have all the Linksys wireless drivers.

[washe]

I havent checked lately wlan, last time they didnt had support for the chipset, the G series from Linksys are made with Broadcom chipset... and Broadcom refuses to release a driver/specs for open source to develop a driver...

this makes linuxant and ndiswrapper the only options.... they use the windows drivers with a loaddriver that makes the calls to linux...

[vass0922]

he's asking about the 2.8 series 802.11B though

Ver. 4 of the LInksys is where they changed chipset (although I could be wrong if USB versions are different)

Oh and no they haven't released drivers for the new chipset
Those @$%@$% at broadcom

Sucks linksys switched
Prism made quite a bit available for them.

[lauroy8]

Thanks for the help...I will give those drivers a try. Linux can see that there is a device there, it just doesnt know what it is. I am pretty patient when it comes to things like this. Its all learning for me and I'm having fun with it.

[jannybean2002]

I got a belkin 54g .........so easy to install

[washe]

Originally posted by vass0922
he's asking about the 2.8 series 802.11B though

Ver. 4 of the LInksys is where they changed chipset (although I could be wrong if USB versions are different)

Oh and no they haven't released drivers for the new chipset
Those @$%@$% at broadcom

Sucks linksys switched
Prism made quite a bit available for them.

upsss didnt notice b....

lauroy8 verify what chipset do you have:

as root type:

lspci

and look for it on network controller or usb device (not sure because its hooked to the usb port), it will tell you what chipset you have...

[lauroy8]

I believe it is a Prism based unit. I got the drivers from linix-wlan.com. When I do "make config" it wants to know where the linux source directory is?? Sorry to be a pain....just learning.

Thanks

[vass0922]

It depends if you installed the Kernel-Source package

Search in your RPM Manager for "Kernel" and make sure the source package is installed

After that it should default to /usr/src/linux