Help with Linksys WUSB11

Forum: Networking
Topic: Help with Linksys WUSB11
started by: achafe

Posted by achafe on Dec. 19 2005,16:00

So I searched these forums for some information and got lots of help, here's what I did so far:

- Downloaded drivers to my harddrive with windows,
- Rebooted into DSL 2.0 (livecd)
- Went into ->Panel->ndiswrapper
- located the driver 'netusb.inf' entered its path into first field
- in field two, I enetered the usb device ID '077b:2219' (could this be a problem??)
- typed in my network ID, 'linksys'
- typed in my wep, in the form XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
- Hit ok and msg popped up saying connection failed.

I really want to get DSL working on this machine and the wireless adapter is its only way of connecting to the net. What is going wrong?

Thanks in advance!

Posted by roberts on Dec. 20 2005,18:55

Normally the device name (field 2 of the GUI) for ndiswrapper is wlan0
You can confirm this by starting fresh and initially do each step manually...

As user root
ndiswrapper -i yourcard_here.info
modprobe ndiswrapper

Now type iwconfig by itself, it will display the device name, of course unconfigured. Now configure your card manually or go back and use the GUI with the proper device name.

iwconfig wlan0 essid your_sid_here

and possibly other iwconfig commands for your intended purpose

and finally

pump -i wlan0

Posted by achafe on Dec. 21 2005,21:23

Ok I did that and at the step where I enter 'iwconfig' by itself I get no names at all. Something to the effect of no devices installed or something, I don't recall exactly.

After I instal the driver I do ndiswrapper -l and get the driver installed followed by 'Invalid Driver!' Is this another sign of trouble??

Posted by roberts on Dec. 21 2005,23:08

Yes you must have a device or no go.
I usually have better luck with WinXP drivers.
Also the ndiswrapper sourgeforge < list > is the best place to find needed drivers.

Posted by achafe on Dec. 21 2005,23:18

Thanks for that list, it has a similar version to my wusb11 there...I will give it a shot and post here if I am successful or not.

Thanks again!!

Posted by achafe on Dec. 23 2005,00:07

Nope no success, with that. Guess I'll stick to win 98 on this pc.

But I have since run dsl on a different 1400Mhz, 256Mb ram machine I have. Talk about amazing speed! works wonderfully with the 'dsl toram' comand at boot. Beautiful OS!

Posted by msuho on Dec. 24 2005,15:52

Achafe-

Which version of the WUSB11 do you have?

I've got two- one's version 2.5, the other 2.8

The version 2.5 will work with the prism2 support included in 2.0,

I haven't spent much time trying to figure out the version 2.8 yet.

Mark

Posted by achafe on Dec. 24 2005,19:14

I have version 2.6

I haven't had any luck running the prism2 program

Posted by roberts on Dec. 24 2005,20:49

If you would post the output of lsmod and also
# sh -x /usr/local/bin/prism2.sh wlan0 your_channel_nbr your_ssid

Maybe someone can spot something.
Also, in the kernel is prism54 support. you might try

modprobe prism54

Posted by tempestuous on Dec. 25 2005,03:15

You don't have a Prism device. There are 2 different versions of the WUSB11 ver2.6, both contain the Atmel chipset. See here -
< http://at76c503a.berlios.de/devices.html >
You could use ndiswrapper, or if you're prepared to compile a Linux driver ...
- for the 077b:2219 version use the BerliOS driver from the above website.
- for the 066b:2211 version use the driver from < http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/ >

Run "lsusb" to identify your device.

Posted by ackattacker on Dec. 28 2005,04:50

Quote (tempestuous @ Dec. 24 2005,22:15)

tempestuous, I noticed that you're the one who created the myDSL apps for the atmel wlan drivers. These are compiled for the .26 kernel, and don't work with the .31 kernel. I'm not knowledgeable enough to recompile these... any chance you could update the repositories? It would be a big help in gettting my Linsys WUSB11 (v 2.6) working...

Posted by tempestuous on Dec. 28 2005,13:12

Sorry. I once had a DSL/Knoppix development setup with full kernel build tree, but no longer. I'm now playing with other Linux distributions and projects.

You could do it yourself with gnu-utils.dsl and kernelsource.dsl
... or use my old Atmel drivers with DSL ver1.5, which was the last version of DSL with the 2.4.26 kernel.

Posted by achafe on Jan. 05 2006,00:08

Hi,

sorry for lack of updates on my situation.

roberts, I've tried what you suggested but could get the copy and paste to work! *turns red* I figured it wouldn't be to big a deal with the news that my card is actually Atmel!

I figured i'd stick with win98 on this PC, it works fine for what I want. However I really love the whole idea behind opensource and linux so I plan to upgrade to something newer that can handle a full blown, memory eating linux distro. In the meantime I have changed all my windows software over to open source!

Thanks for all your help guys!

Posted by katcha on Jan. 07 2006,17:54

Hi.
I've got Linksys WUSB v. 2.8. I'm trying to bring it up since many month. The only linux distro makes it happen is the polish one Linux eduCD. It's using simply drivers for atmel at76c503. probabily its kernel has got a better support for usb hardware.
I've tried to use ndiswrapper with DSL 2.0, but nope. Ndiswrapper shows: driver present hardware present i could manually bring wlan0 up, but it was the only I could

maybe its time to upgrade DSL kernel?

/katcha/.

Posted by tempestuous on Jan. 08 2006,05:54

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probably its kernel has got a better support for usb hardware

I don't believe this. Your adaptor is working successfully with Linux-EduCD because of the BerliOS at76c503a driver. Atmel-based USB adaptors will probably work just fine in DSL2 with this driver, too.

ndiswrapper is at fault. I have tried it on different hardware with different distributions. An all-too-common outcome is total lockup, especially with USB devices. And the latest version 1.7 still has problems.

Posted by roberts on Jan. 08 2006,08:29

Quote

There are 2 different versions of the WUSB11 ver2.6, both contain the Atmel chipset. See here -
< http://at76c503a.berlios.de/devices.html >
You could use ndiswrapper, or if you're prepared to compile a Linux driver ...
- for the 077b:2219 version use the BerliOS driver from the above website.
- for the 066b:2211 version use the driver from < http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/ >

Run "lsusb" to identify your device.

I have compiled the BerliOS driver as mentioned by user tempestuous above.
The instructions contained within the source specify to use the following:

insmod usbdfu.o
insmod at76c503.o
insmod at76c503_rfmd.o

These modules are available in at76c.tar.gz in this < directory >

I don't have access to this card for testing, so we must try to work together as we did for with madwifi cards.
Let us know.

Posted by Mathes75 on Jan. 25 2006,22:58

I would like to test the compiled drivers, but i can't find any at76c.tar.gz in this directory.

I just wanted to give the 077b:2219 version of the WUSB11 ver2.6 a go!

Drivers for me (including little, little instructions

) - feedback for you!

Posted by tempestuous on Jan. 26 2006,11:02

DSL-2.2RC1 has just reverted to the 2.4.26 kernel, so Robert's new drivers are not useable.

You can now use my (old) Atmel USB WLAN Drivers from here -
< http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub....m >

Posted by Mathes75 on Jan. 28 2006,12:44

Hmmm. I am working with DSL 2.1 so I need the Kernel 2.4.31 drivers. I can't find them on roberts link. Anywhere else?