Install Via VNT6656 Wireless USB

[djpero]

Hi!

I'm new in Linux at all, and I want to install VIA VNT-6656 Wireless usb. I found on VIA site the drivers, but I dont know how to compile it and install.

There is lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 745 Host [1039:0745] (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP) [1039:0001]
00:02.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS85C503/5513 (LPC Bridge) [1039:0018]
00:02.1 SMBus [0c05]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller [1039:0016]
00:02.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller [1039:7001] (rev 07)
00:02.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller [1039:7001] (rev 07)
00:02.5 IDE interface [0101]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] [1039:5513] (rev d0)
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 [13f6:0111] (rev 10)
00:09.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6421 IDE RAID Controller [1106:3249] (rev 50)
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ [10ec:8139] (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G100 [Productiva] AGP [102b:1001] (rev 02)

lsusb:

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0930:6545 Toshiba Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 160a:3184  
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05fe:2001 Chic Technology Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

hwinfo: attached


Thanks!

[gogalthorp]

Generally if you are installing anything from source you will need kernel-source and gcc compiler. These can be installed via Yast-Software-Software Management.

Follow the instruction from the page you downloaded from or there is normally a readme file in the compressed package with installation instructions.

Remember that Linux is case sensitve and file is not the same as File

[djpero]

I figured case sensitive

I installer ndiswrapprer from Yast and load windows driver.

When i list drivers with ndiswrapper -l i have device and driver presetnt.

Now i have problem when run modprobe ndiswrapper, it said the kernel for ndiswrapper is not loaded? How to load them?

[djpero]

I loaded ndiswrapper but i have not wlan0 in network settings.

I tried with modprobe -n -v --first-time ndiswrapper

and it said is already loaded.

Where is wlan0?

[waterhead]

You can download the Linux driver source From ViaArena.

http://www.viaarena.com/Driver/VT665....19_12_x86.zip

I compiled this on my Ubuntu PC with no problems. Total time was about 5 minutes. You need the kernel source and kernel headers installed. You also need the Linux compiler, gcc.

Since there is a Linux driver for it, I wouldn't mess with NDISwrapper. It will just complicate things, so uninstall it.

The instructions to compile the Linux driver are in the folder that the driver files are in. Read the linux.txt file.

cd VT6656_Linux_src_v1.19_12_x86
make clean
make install

That's it!