working with Wireless WUSB54GCv3 adapter

[savook]

Hello All,

Recently I purchased a Linksys WUSB54GCV3 Wireless adapter. I wanted to use this on my xubuntu 9.04 version and kernel version is 2.6.28-14-generic.system. But unfortunately this doesn't support. Can any one please help me to solve this issue?

Thanks in advance!
Savook

[Mudgen]

savook has also posted identically on ubuntuforums, and also hijacked another thread where savook says:

"Radixor,

Recently, I purchased WUSB54GCv3 Wireless adapter and it didn't work on my xubuntu 9.04 kernel version 2.6.28-14-generic.
I followed the steps that you have suggested in the tread posted on May 12th, 2009. I could see wireless network but couldn't able to connect to it. What may be wrong?
Could you please help me to resolve this issue."

[waterhead]

greyhairweenie: There is no law against seeking help in several forums.

savook: We need more specific information before we can help you. The thread linked to below details the info needed, and how to find it.

Wireless Setup - Start Here

[Mudgen]

greyhairweenie: There is no law against seeking help in several forums.

There certainly isn't, and you're free to help the OP. My point was that the OP has cross-posted on the topic elsewhere, with one of those posts giving information that isn't given here. The hijacking remark was probably gratuitous.

[robert3353]

Hello,
I do not have one of your adapters and wish I could be of help getting yours working. However if you can still return yours for a refund you may want to buy this one instead. It is made by Asus, I have the one by them just before this one came out that only supports b,g networks and it worked with Linux out of the box.

ASUS USB-N13 IEEE 802.11b/g/n USB 2.0 Wireless Adapter

This is available on New Egg dot com now for 23 dollars. When I read the product description I did not see any mention of what OS's that they support and after going to their website I discovered that they support almost everything, all windows from xp - 7, Mac OS X and several different Linux distros, I think Red hat was one, the latest Ubuntu, not sure what one and another one I cannot remember at the moment. However if it works on these it will work on any distro out there. These are just the ones that they support. First company that I have seen that supports any hardware for Linux so my hats off to Asus.

PS I just did a Google search using the model number of your adaptor "WUSB54GCv3 Wireless adapter in Linux" as the search terms and got several hits here is one of them that may solve your problem. For the future you may want to Google any hardware prior to purchase to see if it works with Linux. I have been doing this for a while, I dual boot and want everything working on my workstation regardless of what OS I am running at the moment.

I tried to submit the URL but was not able to, some silly rule about only being about to post url's after I have personally posted 15 times. It was from a Debian forum post so you should find it if you use my Google search terms. If not feel free to PM me here and I will get you the URL.

Hope you get it working.
robert3353

Hello All,

Recently I purchased a Linksys WUSB54GCV3 Wireless adapter. I wanted to use this on my xubuntu 9.04 version and kernel version is 2.6.28-14-generic.system. But unfortunately this doesn't support. Can any one please help me to solve this issue?

Thanks in advance!
Savook

[robert3353]

Hello All,

Recently I purchased a Linksys WUSB54GCV3 Wireless adapter. I wanted to use this on my xubuntu 9.04 version and kernel version is 2.6.28-14-generic.system. But unfortunately this doesn't support. Can any one please help me to solve this issue?

Thanks in advance!
Savook

Hello again savook,
I did not remember giving my Yahoo IM info here but saw the link after I posted. If you want to IM me there I will send you the URL I found

[rttrent]

What linux supports the asus usb-n13? I have some linksys that work well with ubuntu 8.04 that are very flakey under ubuntu 9.10. I need four of them and the price looks good.

[robert3353]

What linux supports the asus usb-n13? I have some linksys that work well with ubuntu 8.04 that are very flakey under ubuntu 9.10. I need four of them and the price looks good.

According to the Asus dot com website they support Ubuntu and Fedora that use a 2.6 kernel and a 2.4 kernel for Red Hat

However it has been my experience with their model that this one replaces is that it worked with any distro I tried it on, some did not work out of the box but with a little effort I was able to get it working. On the distros that it did not work out of the box the main reason was that the kernel module was not provided by default but once you determine the chip set used I had no difficulty finding it on the package manager that they used. I have used a lot of different ones trying to find a new Linux home. I used to use Suse prior to Novel getting into bed with Microsuck and now do not trust them so I have been looking around a lot. I do not think that you would have any difficulty getting this wireless adapter working regardless of what distro you choose to use. All Asus is saying is the ones listed are the only ones that they formally support ie do not bother calling them for tech support if you are using any distro other than Ubuntu or Fedora.

Asus has been really good about choosing chip sets that are supported by Linux. I have not bought one of these yet but may in the next few days but from reading their website (go there and look up the adapter yourself) that they provide drivers for all the different OS's that they support. However the driver is probably already in the Kernel. Sometimes when someone has problems with a particular distro not supporting something that is known to work on Linux in general then the most likely reason is that the distros developers just did not compile the module for the piece of hardware that is not working. This is a good reason to learn how to compile your own custom Kernel or at least how to create the necessary Kernel modules for the hardware that you own. Even though it is more of a pain to get set up than other distros I have pretty much decided that I am going to make Gentoo my distro of choice. That way I can put it together any way I want and need. My thoughts with respect to Ubuntu is I feel that it is one of the most inconsistent distros out there. What worked on one release is broken on the very next release. To me that is not a very good sign, you would think that a distro would continually get better with each subsequent release not get buggier. This is the reason I gave up on Ubuntu a long time ago and would almost rather use any other distro out there than them. I quite frankly do not understand why it is supposedly the most popular Linux Distro. In my opinon if you are using Ubuntu why not just use Debian or Mepis Linux.

One of the things I like about this particular adapter, at least when used under Widows XP or Vista, the software provided allows you to configure the adapter as an access point. I do not think that the current open source driver on Linux implements this capability. If I were a developer I would give it a try and see if I could add this capability to the driver but alas I am not.

Hope that this has helped,
Robert

[waterhead]

Please remember that this thread is about the Linksys WUSB54GCV3 Wireless adapter. Do not hijack for your own purposes.

[rttrent]

Thanks for the quick response that gives me some hope. My apologies for the hijack - it was thoughtless but unintentional.