Guest MonkeeOfEvil Posted June 29, 2005 Report Share Posted June 29, 2005 (edited) First off, hey I'm teh monkee of evil. Whats up? :) Now, down to business. I installed Mandriva Linux ( 2005 limited ) or whatever the version is...current. lol. I hook up my wireless card and I can't seem to get it working. It appears that the driver is already on the system because it apears in my hardware list when i go into the Control Center...here's what I see: IdentificationVendor: Linksys Inc. Description: WUSB11v2.5 802.11b Adapter Media Class: Connection Bus: USB Bus PCI #: 1 PCI Device #: 5 Vendor ID: 1643 Device ID: 8722 Misc Module: prism2_usb There are 2 buttons...one says Configure Module, the other one says Run Config tool.. I tried going to configure module and it asks me for prism2_doreset, reset_holdtime, and reset_settletime...i don't know wtf all that is so I left it alone. When I click on the run config tool it brings up a dialog that says "Network & Internet Configuration" and to choose the connection you want to configure. I select Wireless Connection and click next. Two windows pop up to fast to be read, then prompts to select the network interface to configure. there are 2 options, one to manually load driver, then another to use a Windows Driver w/ndiswrapper. I select Manually load driver, then select prism2_usb from the list. It goes to a screen where It tells me that it may require additional information and wants to know if i want it to autoprobe, or specify options. I select autoprobe and there's a couple windows that flash to quickly to be read, then i'm back at the screen asking if i want to manually load a driver, or use ndiswrapper. I went back through it again using the specify options link and it asked for the doreset and such... I'm a bit lost here...I'm 100% positive that this is a wusb11 2.5 adapater...so what am i not doing / doing wrong here? Should i be trying to use ndiswrapper instead? Edited June 29, 2005 by MonkeeOfEvil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted June 30, 2005 Report Share Posted June 30, 2005 There are 2 ways to get wireless working in linux: with a linux driver and with a windowsdriver (using ndiswrapper). Your card has no linux driver so you need to use ndiswrapper. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest random guy Posted October 4, 2005 Report Share Posted October 4, 2005 i have same problem but with my linksys wusb11 network device. so i dont have 2 options i have 3. the extra one is my device (with the word unknown infront of it) so i have been trying to use that option for a long time to get it working, but it wants me to have atmel packages and hotplug packages and all the ones i find dont work nicely together and it is not working great (i have been working on this for many hours in last few days) so i guess i will try the ndiswindows wrapper but what is the file i need? what extension? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyspongebob Posted October 8, 2005 Report Share Posted October 8, 2005 so i guess i will try the ndiswindows wrapper but what is the file i need? what extension? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Get window$ driver package from linksys. Unpack it. When ndiswrapper asks for .inf file, pick any of the .inf file untill your card is recognized. That's is how I did for my pc card linksys wireless. J.T. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaner Posted October 15, 2005 Report Share Posted October 15, 2005 Ok, I did the same for my card, and it still doesn't run. What would be the next step. I don't know how to make it active? Thanks. Shane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyspongebob Posted October 16, 2005 Report Share Posted October 16, 2005 I only tried using ndiswrapper with mandriva 2006 RC2 and the card works fine. I have not tried with any other distro. So, I don't know. After installing the window$ driver, you need to configure the card by inputing SSID and WEP if your router is configured so. J.T. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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