USB wireless adapter

Forum: Networking
Topic: USB wireless adapter
started by: aven_soulgazer

Posted by aven_soulgazer on Sep. 09 2004,20:08

Does DSL support any usb wireless receivers? I have a microsoft usb that has the Prism 2/2 5/3 core

Posted by ke4nt1 on Sep. 09 2004,20:48

< EDIT > sri, this is for the pcmcia versions < EDIT >

Prism 2 support under this kernel is touch & go..
Some cards are happy ( earlier versions )
some aren't ...
The wlcardconfig just doesn't respond or detect the cards..

Here's my workaround, for my prism2 card..
Cut and paste this into a file ..
Follow the simple instructions, save, make executable. and run it..

Maybe you'll get lucky...

73
ke4nt

Quote

#!/bin/sh
#
# Wireless Card config for prism2 chipset for DSL 0.8.x
# Pasted together from various googled sources and forums
# Reworked for Damn Small Linux
# ke4nt[at]damnsmalllinux[dot]org
# This bypasses the wlcardconfig and iwconfig for prism2 cards
#
# Where the * are in lines 17 and 18, add your wireless channel number
# ex: " ~ lnxreq_wlansniff enable=false channel 9 "
# Add your encrpytion key on line 22 - format as =AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF:GG:HH:11:22:33:44:55
# Add your ssid on line 23 - format as ssid=whateveryouressidis
#
modprobe prism2_cs
wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable
wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_hostwep decrypt=true encrypt=true
wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_wlansniff enable=false channel *
wlanctl-ng wlan0 p2req_channel_info_results channel *
wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibset mibattribute=dot11WEPDefaultKeyID=0
wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibset mibattribute=dot11ExcludeUnencrypted=true
wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibset mibattribute=dot11PrivacyInvoked=true
wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibset mibattribute=dot11WEPDefaultKey0=**:**:**:**:**:**:**:**:**:**:**:**:**
wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_autojoin ssid=******** authtype=opensystem
pump -i wlan0

Posted by aven_soulgazer on Sep. 09 2004,22:00

But like I said, mine is USB. Thanks for the try though. I'm also new to this, I've given it several tries before but never got my dsl or cable modem or router to work with it. That was running mandrake 9

Posted by ZooT_aLLures on Sep. 12 2004,21:10

using the script above simply change the modprobe line from
modprobe prism2_cs
to
modprobe prism_usb
and it should work