Need Help with Linksys WUSB100 ver.2

[TheRenegade]

Hello everyone. I have been trying to get my "RangePlus Wireless Network USB Adapter" to work in Debian 5.0. I can only access the internet from a Linux distro by running a wire from a vent in my floor through the middle of my living room to my router... not too aestetically pleasing.

I have the device working without hitch on WinXP on the same computer, but am confused as to what I sohuld do now. I have downloaded ndiswrapper and am now kind of lost. I am not exactly new to Linux, but I haven't attempted any sort of compiling or anything, if that gives you an idea of where i'm at....


I'd really appreciate some help... The only reason I use XP right now is to use the internet. I am trying make no reason to have to use XP except for certain games, but internet is a huge part of my computing, and without it I really have no reason to use linux except to access my media fles on a seperate storage partition I have set up, and writing documents and stuff.

[reed9]

With the adapter plugged in, please post the output of

lsusb
lsmod

[reed9]

This may help too.

[other_os] Linksys WUSB100 wireless card working in Linux. - Ubuntu Forums

Different version of the adapter may use different wireless chipsets, however. If the output of lsusb shows the ID as 1737:0070, it should work.

[TheRenegade]

"lsusb" gives:

Bus 003 Device 003: ID 1737:0078 Linksys 
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 058f:9360 Alcor Micro Corp. 8-in-1 Media Card Reader
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

"lsmod" gives:

Module                  Size  Used by
rfcomm                 28272  0 
l2cap                  17248  5 rfcomm
bluetooth              44996  4 rfcomm,l2cap
ppdev                   6468  0 
lp                      8164  0 
ipv6                  235396  20 
battery                10180  0 
speedstep_lib           4516  0 
cpufreq_userspace       3172  0 
cpufreq_stats           3776  0 
cpufreq_conservative     5960  0 
cpufreq_ondemand        6476  0 
freq_table              4224  2 cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand
cpufreq_powersave       1856  0 
loop                   12748  0 
parport_pc             22500  1 
parport                30988  3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
serio_raw               4740  0 
pcspkr                  2432  0 
psmouse                32336  0 
snd_hda_intel         325720  1 
snd_pcm                62660  1 snd_hda_intel
snd_seq                41456  0 
snd_timer              17800  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device          6380  1 snd_seq
snd                    45636  7 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore               6368  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          7816  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
i2c_piix4               7216  0 
i2c_core               19828  1 i2c_piix4
ati_agp                 6220  0 
button                  6096  0 
shpchp                 25528  0 
pci_hotplug            23460  1 shpchp
agpgart                28808  1 ati_agp
evdev                   8000  3 
sd_mod                 22200  0 
ext3                  105576  1 
jbd                    39476  1 ext3
mbcache                 7108  1 ext3
ide_cd_mod             27684  0 
cdrom                  30176  1 ide_cd_mod
ide_disk               10496  3 
ide_pci_generic         3908  0 [permanent]
usb_storage            77120  0 
8139cp                 16800  0 
atiixp                  3396  0 [permanent]
sata_sil                7176  0 
ide_core               96168  4 ide_cd_mod,ide_disk,ide_pci_generic,atiixp
8139too                20384  0 
mii                     4896  2 8139cp,8139too
ata_generic             4676  0 
ehci_hcd               28428  0 
ohci_hcd               18532  0 
usbcore               118192  4 usb_storage,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
libata                140448  2 sata_sil,ata_generic
scsi_mod              129548  3 sd_mod,usb_storage,libata
dock                    8304  1 libata
thermal                15228  0 
processor              32576  1 thermal
fan                     4196  0 
thermal_sys            10856  3 thermal,processor,fan

[reed9]

Ok, your chip can work using the native driver, but you have to build it yourself and add in the id for the chipset.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1342593

I tend to default to using native drivers whenever possible. Unfortunately, this one is a little bit of a pain. But it does give you a chance to learn about that compiling you haven't done yet.

You could alternatively pursue the ndiswrapper route. You would need the windows xp driver for the card then. Not idea if ndiswrapper works with this chip or not.

[TheRenegade]

Hmm... apt can't seem to find 'linux-headers-generic'.

I ran

apt-get install linux-headers

instead and got:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package linux-headers is a virtual package provided by:
  linux-headers-2.6.26-2-xen-686 2.6.26-19lenny2
  linux-headers-2.6.26-2-vserver-686-bigmem 2.6.26-19lenny2
  linux-headers-2.6.26-2-vserver-686 2.6.26-19lenny2
  linux-headers-2.6.26-2-openvz-686 2.6.26-19lenny2
  linux-headers-2.6.26-2-amd64 2.6.26-19lenny2
  linux-headers-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem 2.6.26-19lenny2
  linux-headers-2.6.26-2-686 2.6.26-19lenny2
  linux-headers-2.6.26-2-486 2.6.26-19lenny2
  linux-headers-2.6.26-1-xen-686 2.6.26-13lenny2
  linux-headers-2.6.26-1-vserver-686-bigmem 2.6.26-13lenny2
  linux-headers-2.6.26-1-vserver-686 2.6.26-13lenny2
  linux-headers-2.6.26-1-openvz-686 2.6.26-13lenny2
  linux-headers-2.6.26-1-amd64 2.6.26-13lenny2
  linux-headers-2.6.26-1-686-bigmem 2.6.26-13lenny2
  linux-headers-2.6.26-1-686 2.6.26-13lenny2
  linux-headers-2.6.26-1-486 2.6.26-13lenny2
  linux-headers-2.6-xen-686 2.6.26+17+lenny1
  linux-headers-2.6-vserver-686-bigmem 2.6.26+17+lenny1
  linux-headers-2.6-vserver-686 2.6.26+17+lenny1
  linux-headers-2.6-openvz-686 2.6.26+17+lenny1
  linux-headers-2.6-amd64 2.6.26+17+lenny1
  linux-headers-2.6-686-bigmem 2.6.26+17+lenny1
  linux-headers-2.6-686 2.6.26+17+lenny1
  linux-headers-2.6-486 2.6.26+17+lenny1
You should explicitly select one to install.
E: Package linux-headers has no installation candidate

I appreciate the help so far. I understand you are helping me on your time, so I am very grateful.


I am trying to learn to work through these kind of things rather than do what I use to do and try to find a different distro. I've tried about 40 different distros in the last year or two, and everytime I would encounter a problem (hardware not working "out-of-the-box" or something), I would turn around and try to find another distribution.

I am starting to see how wrong I was for doing that. All of that time I spent reformatting and repartitioning my hard drive, I could have spent tweaking a decent OS to fit me and my computer's needs. I was always just after instant gratification rather than the reliability of a custom system.


Anyways, thanks again.

[reed9]

Whoops, sorry, Debian refers to the headers package a little differently than Ubuntu.

Try is as so

apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

uname -r outputs your current kernel version, so using that as a variable should get you the correct package.

[reed9]

I appreciate the help so far. I understand you are helping me on your time, so I am very grateful.

It's how I try and give a little something back to the community. Otherwise I'd just be taking all this amazing software and not contributing anything in return. In the scheme of things, it's a small contribution, but better than nothing I hope.

I am trying to learn to work through these kind of things rather than do what I use to do and try to find a different distro. I've tried about 40 different distros in the last year or two, and everytime I would encounter a problem (hardware not working "out-of-the-box", would turn around and try to find another distribution.

I distro hopped for about a year before settling on Arch. It wasn't so much that this or that didn't work, but I had a hard time figuring out whyit didn't work - the "newbie friendly" distros had too much abstraction between me and the system. Arch doesn't hardly do anything for you, so while it takes a little more effort to set up, I know what was done because I did it, and I've found it just much much easier to maintain.

Not to mention I never have to reinstall the next big release, since it's a rolling release distro, and I never have to find some obscure ppa repo to get the latest software, since new software releases are moved into the repos very quickly.

[TheRenegade]

Hmm... Arch sound good now. You should be in advertising.

Thanks for the new code (and telling me what 'uname -r' does -- I've been wondering that), it installed fine.


I'll keep following the guide and let you know if there are any more hiccups.

[TheRenegade]

What should I do instead of Ubuntu's

make

and

make install

It's saying command not found...