USB Wireless Internet Card Trouble

[weatherkid]

I have a Linksys Compact Wireless G card model WUSB4GC and when I plug it in or boot with it in Debian doesn't reconize it. I have to use it because the modem is in one room and the computer is in another. Please help.

[daark.child]

You first need to determine the chipset thats on the card. You can do this by running

lsusb

and

/sbin/lspci | grep -i net

[weatherkid]

It couldn't find the /sbin/lspci file.

[daark.child]

My apologies, on Debian lspci is in /usr/bin, so the right command is simply "lspci" or /usr/bin/lspci.

[weatherkid]

Thats ok, we all goof up sometimes. =)

[weatherkid]

Still dead. All that cmd did was tell me my ethernet cards info. It didn't start my USB card.

[daark.child]

The commands don't actually help you start your USB wireless. They are for getting information about the network cards on your system. With that information, you can determine the chipset of your wireless card and then find the correct drivers. It seems like your wireless card is a USB type card and thats why it wasn't shown in the output of lspci. You need to run lsusb and hopefully that will return the information we need about your wireless card.

[weatherkid]

Here is what lsusb returned

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 13b1:0020 Linksys
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

[daark.child]

You card is recognised by Linux but the reason why it won't work is because your version of Linux may not have the required drivers. Some on the Debian forums managed to install the rt73 drivers and got it working. If that does not help, try using your Windows drivers with ndiswrapper

[weatherkid]

ndiswrapper cmd did't work. I tryed acting a root but it said I didn't have permission to act as root. I went to the file it checked-sudodo-or something like that I couldn't open it. Help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!