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Topic: WLAN: Linksys WUSB54G - does it work?

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Posted: Sep. 20 2006,14:32

Thanks for the info Winter Knight, I too have been troubled with getting a WUSB54G v 4 to work with DSL. Now I know it won't! Do you think anyone is working on getting kernel 2.4 to work with these devices?

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Posted: Sep. 20 2006,16:40

I believe the main problem (from what I remember) was that the driver for the 2.4 kernel did not support SMP kernels, in which DSL uses. So then people got around this by using ndiswrapper, but nothing is like running things natively. Afaik some users have compiled their own kernel and modules without smp support, and have succeeded - no one has yet to create a dsl remaster/package though.

Sorry if my post seemed to throw some users off, but imo there were too many posts about this before :P Maybe the right info should be added somewhere (wiki?) as a note about this chipset's quirks.

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Posted: Oct. 02 2006,12:38

Actually, I didn't say it won't work. I said that I didn't think it would. I just based my thoughts on the forum search that I did, where I could find nothing but unresolved problems. There were dozens of hits tho, and I didn't check them all. Maybe one of them had a solution.

hats, as for newbies keep asking the same questions, that's what newbies do. Good news! The wiki just opened. Since you know more about this problem than I do, hats, why don't you write a wiki page?

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