Linksys WUSB11 v2.6 - will it work?

Forum: Networking
Topic: Linksys WUSB11 v2.6 - will it work?
started by: tomv

Posted by tomv on May 23 2006,18:23

Has anyone gotten a Linksys WUSB11 to work with DSL? It should work, but I can't get my Toshiba Tecra 530CDT to see it under DSL. dmesg shows a USB device being plugged in, but I don't know what commands to run to make it appear as a network device. I've tried many things but they were all for slightly different cards and I couldn't figure out how to adapt their recipes to my card.

It has an Atmel chip AT76C503A (vend/prod 0x77b/0x2219) and is supposed to work well with uhci.o usb - but I'm too much of a newb to figure out the magic set of commands.

This page at LinuxUSB should help for someone who understands this just a little better than me:

< http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=1218 >
< LinuxUSB at qbik.ch >

Posted by piccolo on May 25 2006,09:53

I do know from the post by "klasact" user that the Linksys WUSB11 v2.5 work with DSL 2.4
You could send an email to klasact to know more details.

Posted by joske_be on June 23 2006,15:24

I am experiencing the same problem, so how did you guys get it to work (i've got version 2.6)

Posted by Janids on June 23 2006,15:52

joske:
have you followed piccolo's suggestion???

Posted by joske_be on June 26 2006,22:03

I did, but got no reaction so far.So I hoped maybe someone else could help me. I searched the net for hours, but could'nt find a proper solution (or one that I was able to understand)

ps I am also alinux newbie

Posted by newOldUser on July 16 2006,17:25

I've used the Linksys wusb11 v2.6 and DSL version 2.4

Here's what I did...

1) go to myDSL....System and download the atmelusbdrivers. Linksys version 2.6 of WUSB11 uses the atmel drivers.

2) after the drivers have been downloaded and installed from a terminal enter: sudo update-modules
When it asks about overwriting some file say yes.

3) plug the linksys device into the machine

4) from a terminal enter: sudo modprobe wlan0 at76c503*

5) from a terminal enter: iwconfig

6) You should see a wlan0 entry in addition to the l0 entry. If you don't see the wlan0 then reboot, watch the startup messages and make sure the atmel drivers get picked up at boot time. Try booting with the linksys device plugged in and not plugged in. At this point it's more of an art then a science as to what might make it work.

7) When you see thw wlan0 device....

8) in a terminal enter: sudo iwconfig essid WIRELESS_NET_NAME key FFFFFFFFFF mode Managed

Wireless_net_name is the name your wireless router is broadcasting

FFFFFFFFFF is the 10 hex characters that make up your WEP password (if you use WEP)

9) in a terminal enter: sudo pump -i wlan0

10) in a terminal do: ifconfig

You should see a working wlan0 entry. The pump entry assumes you want to use DHCP.

If this doesn't work try it again but leave 15 seconds between each step. Sometimes on slower hardware or limited memory the steps just seem to take longer and the system needs time to 'settle down' between commands.

Good luck.

I should add that this was used on a compaq presario 1200 laptop, dsl v2.4 and using what I think is called a 'poormans' install. That's where I've used a cheat code of tohd to copy to a hard drive partition and then on subsequent boots I've used a cheat code of fromhd to load from the hard drive instead of a cd. For some reason a normal frugal install didn't work..... can't remember what the problem was.... some day I'll have to look at it again...

Posted by joske_be on July 23 2006,10:49

THX for helping me out, I finally got it working, so you saved another portable from being redirected to the trashbin.

Posted by joske_be on July 24 2006,05:47

edit: I got it up and working, but everityme I boot I have to reconfigure the whole thing. How do I auto-load the drivers and the wireless configuration?