wireless drivers wu61s on edubuntu

[callmebadger]

hi all,
i am an absolute beginner.
recently i installed edubuntu 10.04
i now want to move it to the kids room, but i was wanting to use a wireless usb stick that was given to me, without any drivers, all information i have found on this old stick below

NET LYNX looks similar but mine does not have net-lynx on it.
although my stick only has this written on it.
on the back
WU61S
FCC ID RXZ-WU61S
SN GWU195
0641E000407
00064F43136F
on the front
WLAN USB2.0 54bps Adapter
LINK (near the led)

I have used this on xp and had to find drivers to use this the drivers were a nightmare to find.

also i found a list of drivers
linux wireless Drivers

my question is how do i tie in the information i have with the linux wireless drivers list in order to identify the correct driver?
or if there is a better way let me know.

also when i have this downloaded to my os how do i go about installing this in order to use this usb wlan?
please bare in mind i only just found TERMINAL yesterday by following some instructions for other users and ubuntu's help.

i am also interested to hear if people suggest not to bother with this usb wlan it wont work and if this is true what item would they suggest. thankyou


ps

sudo lshw -C network
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: VT6102 [Rhine-II]
vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
physical id: 12
bus info: pci 0000:00:12.0
logical name: eth0
version: 78
serial: 00:11:09:d7:e2:68
size: 10MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=via-rhine driverversion=1.4.3 duplex=half latency=32 link=no maxlatency=8 mingnt=3 multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s
resources: irq:23 ioport:e700(size=256) memory:ee011000-ee0110ff

lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0457:0163 Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. 802.11 Wireless LAN Adapter
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:09:d7:e2:68
inet addr:10.0.0.4 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::211:9ff:fed7:e268/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:679 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:696 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:665931 (665.9 KB) TX bytes:145158 (145.1 KB)
Interrupt:23

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:92 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:92 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:7088 (7.0 KB) TX bytes:7088 (7.0 KB)
does this help?

[jayd512]

Hello and Welcome!

I don't believe that there are any native Linux drivers for that adapter. So you're going to need to use the Windows drivers, and something called NDISwrapper.

Here is a page that should get you started with it: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...ornet_USB_Lite

It's directed at your specific chipset, so follow the steps carefully, and you should be able to get everything up and running.

[callmebadger]

jayd512 ur a champ.

thankyou very much.
didnt even need to use my suspect drivers the ones on here were the ones i needed.

again thanks for the help.

[jayd512]

Wonderful!
Glad to have helped!