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macawgumbo
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 Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 2:21 am Post subject: The BIG Wireless Question |
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| How the hell do I get this thing to work? And you thought it would be something good... Oh well. I have to say that I am still a sorta newbie. I have already built my server and am now in the process of converting everything over on my main desktop for Windows XP to Gentoo. The problem is the only access to internet I have is through wireless. I moved my computer temporarily to get wired access, but that isn't working. I have tried iwconfig, wpa_supplicant, and both of my adapters to no avail. Here is the problem. I have a Linksys WUSB11 Usb adapter with the atmel chipset. I also have a WUSB54G by Linksys which has the prism54 chipset. I have no clue what I did with ndiswrapper, because now it doesn't work. Anyways, this fix determines whether you you have a fully devoted gentoo user or half-ass. Cheers. |
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freebies_11
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| Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 2:35 am Post subject: |
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| Good luck with the WUSB54G. Mine won't work. |
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elvisthedj
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| Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 2:47 am Post subject: |
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Card: Linksys WUSB54G, 802.11b/g, USB 2.0 -- link here
Chipset: Prism54
usbid: 5041:2234
Driver: Linksys Windows XP driver http://www.linksys.com/download/default.asp
Other: Works smoothly, of course  - this is the device the USB extension was originally developed for. WEP is running, WPA is supported using wpa_supplicant 0.2.5. No problems with both 1.1 and 2.0 host controllers. As with many other USB devices, no success with 2.4 kernels so far. Try to use 2.6.7 or better. There is a native driver for Prism54 that is working on USB support. View its status at Prism54.org
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Looks like ndiswrapper should work fine..
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I have no clue what I did with ndiswrapper, because now it doesn't work.
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Did you perhaps delete the windows drivers? I believe they should be in /etc/ndiswrapper/wusb54G/
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/Installation
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macawgumbo
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| Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 3:17 am Post subject: |
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| I am getting desperate. I am using the nitro-sources kernel and amworried about stability. I am thinking about rebuilding tomorrow and using gentoo-dev sources with reiser4 patch. I need somebody to post step by step install instructions to get either adapter working. Does ndiswrapper conflict with baselayout 1.11 and will wireless work with the stable layout? For desktop, should I use x86 or ~x86 to get the most compatibility? Please help out. |
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elvisthedj
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| Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 3:56 am Post subject: |
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I need somebody to post step by step install instructions to get either adapter working.
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It's been done
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For desktop, should I use x86 or ~x86 to get the most compatibility? Please help out.
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It's pretty hard to be completely x86. There are a lot of stable packages with unstable dependencies. If you truly mean compatibility, you'll use ~x86 quite often.
Good Luck.
Edit: BTW, if you change your subject to something more relevant, you might get more help.
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| Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 6:02 am Post subject: |
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| elvisthedj wrote: | | It's pretty hard to be completely x86. There are a lot of stable packages with unstable dependencies. If you truly mean compatibility, you'll use ~x86 quite often. |
It's also foolish to go entirely ~x86 - which may be what the guy asking meant. |
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macawgumbo
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| Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 11:06 am Post subject: |
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| does ndiswrapper conflict with any packages, because after I installed the unstable baselayout and added the readlin, sysvinit, and other recommended packages to package.keywords, it stopped working? |
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elvisthedj
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| Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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because after I installed the unstable baselayout and added the readlin, sysvinit, and other recommended packages to package.keywords, it stopped working?
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What does dmesg say? If the module isn't loaded (lsmod), are you able to modprobe ndiswrapper? "stopped working" doesn't really say much.
See if it's loading and which driver it's using by doing the following:
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# dmesg |grep ndis
ndiswrapper version 0.10 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=yes)
ndiswrapper: using irq 177
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:03:xx:1d:0c:xx using driver wmp11v27.sys
ndiswrapper (set_auth_mode:482): setting auth mode failed (C0010015)
ndiswrapper: driver wmp11v27.sys (Linksys,07/30/2002, 3.08.28.0) added
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If it's not loading when you boot up, but you're able to load it with modprobe then you might just need to do the following:
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echo ndiswrapper >> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
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macawgumbo
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 11:21 am Post subject: |
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| rebuilt system today without reiser4 and used gentoo-sources instead of nitro-sources. am trying ndiswrapper tonight. will tell how it goes. |
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macawgumbo
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I am still having the problem with the device. I have found that when I do a | Code: | | modprobe ndiswrapper |
the system freezes (well actually it can't find the device and just hangs). I have found that the system (through dmesg) is registering the device as | Code: | | usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 |
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lsusb outputs:
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Bus 005: ID 13b1:000d
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 |
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macawgumbo
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| Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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| one problem i am solving is that my usb controller is ohci and not uhci like i had originally built into the kernel. oops. fixing it now. |
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macawgumbo
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| Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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| now it recongnizes my wusb11, but not the wusb54g in lsusb. I am going to emerge atmel-firmware to try and use the former instead of the latter. |
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macawgumbo
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| Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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| am using the cvs snapshot of the alternate driver for the atmel chipset, got it to recognize and am now configuring it |
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macawgumbo
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| Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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| i got it to work using the WUSB11 v2.6 with an atmel chipset. I downloaded the atmel firmware driver from the cvs repository (alternative driver than sourceforge). I then configured everything and instead of linking net.wlan0 to net.lo, I copied net.eth0 to net.wlan0 in /etc/init.d/ and it works on boot now! Yay! |
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djmaze
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So you compiled the atmel driver from http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net? It doesn't and didn't ever compile for me on kernel 2.6!
Here is the error message (from "make usb"):
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CC [M] /usr/src/atmelwlandriver/objs/usbvnetr/release/reset_device.o
/usr/src/atmelwlandriver/objs/usbvnetr/release/reset_device.c: In function `update_usb_intf_descr':
/usr/src/atmelwlandriver/objs/usbvnetr/release/reset_device.c:1260: error: structure has no member named `epmaxpacketout'
/usr/src/atmelwlandriver/objs/usbvnetr/release/reset_device.c:1261: error: structure has no member named `epmaxpacketout'
/usr/src/atmelwlandriver/objs/usbvnetr/release/reset_device.c:1263: error: structure has no member named `epmaxpacketin'
/usr/src/atmelwlandriver/objs/usbvnetr/release/reset_device.c:1264: error: structure has no member named `epmaxpacketin'
make[3]: *** [/usr/src/atmelwlandriver/objs/usbvnetr/release/reset_device.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/usr/src/atmelwlandriver/objs/usbvnetr/release] Error 2
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How did you get this running?? Thanks for any help..
Greetz,
Martin |
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djmaze
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| Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Sorry, didn't read your text thoroughly. So you mean the Berlios driver. Thanks, great, works ! |
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ronpetch
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| Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 6:26 am Post subject: installing wireless |
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I have a Netgear WG311 card. I have searched for help on installation under Linux, in general. Some seem to manage, others are like me confused by the various bits of advice. The installation always seems to involve some guesswork as to the wrapper, goes through simple operations and then gets esoteric.
Is there any Gentoo expert out there who can do an idiot's guide?
Even some tips in simple terms would be a help, the wireless network works fine with Windows98.
regards Ron Petch
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