Wireless WUSB54GS Installation

[inboxinator]

Hello all,

I have done a lot of search and couldn't find anyone who had the same problem, (or if found the thread never had a reply ).

I have installed Suse Linux 10.2 on my very old PC that was runnign windows.

The next obvious thing to do was to get online. I was using a Linksys WUSB54GS USB adapter on Windows and found that ndiswrapper was the way to go.
Copied usb8023k.sys rndismpk.SYS WUSB54GSv2.inf and WUSB54GSv2.cat file to /usr/linksys_drivers (Followed instructions from here)
Had to install ndiswrapper using YaST before I issued the command ndiswrapper i- /usr/linksys_drivers/WUSB54GSv2.inf.
This worked, I think....but....
ndiswrapper -l give the following output.
installed drivers:
wusb54gsv2 driver installed, hardware (13B1:0014) present (alternate driver: conflict)

I tried using modprobe to remove certain modules I thought might be causing this conflict.
I did a ndiswrapper -m anyway and proceeded with YaST to setup the wlan. But after all the steps the USB adapter still has no life and wlan0 doesn't appear as a valid interface.

Here are the results of some of the useful commands........

Could someone please help me ? I am desperate to get internet on this PC as this is my only home pc and it is difficult to debug without another internet connection too

lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 090a:1001 Trumpion Microelectronics, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 13b1:0014 Linksys
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

kompu:~ # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 GMCH [Graphics Memory Controller Hub] (rev 03)
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801AA PCI Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801AA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801AA IDE (rev 02)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801AA USB (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801AA SMBus (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801AA AC'97 Audio (rev 02)
01:08.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 536EP Data Fax Modem
01:0c.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78 )

kompu:~ # lsmod
Module Size Used by
nls_iso8859_1 8320 1
nls_cp437 9984 1
vfat 16640 1
fat 55324 1 vfat
sg 38044 0
sd_mod 24576 2
usb_storage 82112 1
scsi_mod 136712 3 sg,sd_mod,usb_storage
iptable_filter 7168 0
ip_tables 17604 1 iptable_filter
x_tables 18180 1 ip_tables
joydev 13504 0
nls_utf8 6272 1
af_packet 29320 0
ipv6 263584 16
snd_pcm_oss 53376 0
snd_mixer_oss 21248 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq 60272 0
snd_seq_device 12812 1 snd_seq
apparmor 55572 0
aamatch_pcre 18304 1 apparmor
loop 20488 0
dm_mod 60184 0
3c59x 46760 0
mii 9600 1 3c59x
uhci_hcd 26892 0
ide_cd 42272 1
cdrom 38432 1 ide_cd
snd_intel8x0 36764 1
snd_ac97_codec 95648 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_ac97_bus 6400 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 86916 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 27908 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 61188 10 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,s nd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
intel_agp 27804 1
soundcore 13792 1 snd
agpgart 35528 2 intel_agp
snd_page_alloc 14472 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
i8xx_tco 11160 0
intel_rng 9216 0
i2c_i801 11660 0
i2c_i810 9476 0
i2c_algo_bit 12808 1 i2c_i810
shpchp 40224 0
i2c_core 25216 2 i2c_i801,i2c_algo_bit
pci_hotplug 35136 1 shpchp
parport_pc 42084 1
lp 15652 0
parport 39752 2 parport_pc,lp
ndiswrapper 185876 0
usbcore 114896 3 usb_storage,uhci_hcd,ndiswrapper
ext3 141192 2
mbcache 12804 1 ext3
jbd 70324 1 ext3
edd 13892 0
processor 34664 0
piix 13700 0 [permanent]
ide_disk 20480 4
ide_core 129992 4 usb_storage,ide_cd,piix,ide_disk

kompu:~ # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

[inboxinator]

I am posting this reply from my Suse Linux 10.2 using Firefox

I was a bit worried to see no replies to my thread, leading me to believe nobody ever got it working. Anyway, here is what I did(or not did) !!!

I was trying to do method 2 from this page. Meaning I was trying to copy the WUSB54GSv2.inf that was installed on my old windows along with the usb8023.sys & rndismp.sys that came with the USR5420.
I also did the udev configuration mentioned for the USR device. But all in vain.

Then last night I decided to try the Method 1 in the page mentioned above. I was not very hopeful because it asks you to use a .inf from a completely different product(which is why I went for method 2 in the first place!)
But I had nothing to lose. So I copied the bcmrndis.inf from the Belkin F5D7051 installation(I did all this at my work, which is the only internet access I had).
Also copied the usb8023k.sys & rndismpk.sys to a local folder on my linux.(note the 'k' at suffixed to the sys file names!)

These are the steps I followed then....

dmesg | grep Linksys
usb 1-2: Product: Linksys Wireless-G USB Network Adapter with SpeedBooster

So I know the usb 1-2 is the port the device is connected to (Thank god the kernel recognised the device at boot up)
During my attempts with Method 2, I had already fired the following command

echo -n > 1 /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-2/bConfigurationValue

I am not entirely sure why this is needed but it helped me (you'll see below)

Then
#To remove previous driver
ndiswrapper -r wusbgs54v2

Then
ndiswrapper -i <path to bcmrndis.inf>/bcmrndis.inf
At this point ndiswrapper -l would probably say invalid driver!
Then I had to copy the usb8023k.sys & rndismpk.sys to /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmrndis folder

Also did

ndiswrapper -a 13B1:0014 bcmrndis
as mentioned in Method 1.

Then this is what it shows
ndiswrapper -l
installed drivers:
bcmrndis driver installed, hardware (1799:7051) present (alternate driver: conflict)

I thought that was it, the conflict would end my hopes.....
I did a modprobe ndiswrapper and VOILA!

The green light on my USB adapter lighted up and then I used YaST to configure the WLAN , like WEP keys etc....

After reboot the adapter did not turn on, But doing
echo -n > 1 /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-2/bConfigurationValue
made it work.....

Anyone knows where would be a good place to plug the above command in? a boot up script or something? Please let me know......

Ok..I am off to do some more surfing...

Cheers.

[atitit]

Heyy, im really noob at linux and there only reason i dont have it installed right now is becuase there is no current drive for my wusb54gs and once you get yours working do you mind giving me thos instructions... it would mean the world to me lol