Net work concerns with Fedora 9,

[Skined]

Hello,

I'm on a Inspiron 1525 with Vista, Fedora 9, and a Linksys WUSB54Gv4 USB network adaptor. My concern is that Linux is unable to conect to any networks, But I can conect with Vista no problem so I know the card is working and I am in range of the router.

On a side note I have no idea what to do with linux, today is my first day with this OS.

I need somebody to hold my hand to set this up I am a little lost in this new world,

Thank you,
Aeris-Skined

[waterhead]

Start out by reading through this post:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/wir...tml#post589924

It will ask that you post the output of a few terminal commands, in this thread. This is done to determine the exact chips that the device is using, and then the drivers that those chips use.

[Skined]

Linksys WUSB54G v4 USB "Ralink chipset"

I have the drivers but they are on my windows parition and I can't access them from the linux OS

I did all my homework on the drivers a few days ago =) I just have no idea how to move them over

When I open the wireless manager in Linux I can view avaible netowrks and so on but when I try to connect it fails with a error message saying "It disconnected"

[waterhead]

You want help, post the output of these commands:

/sbin/lspci -nn
or, for USB
/sbin/lsusb

lsmod

Windows drivers are for Windows. There are Linux drivers for most wireless chipsets

[Skined]

[Skined@localhost ~]$ /sbin/lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a00] (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a02] (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a03] (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2834] (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2835] (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:283a] (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:284b] (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:283f] (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2841] (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 [8086:2847] (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2830] (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2831] (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2832] (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:2836] (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller [8086:2815] (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller [8086:2850] (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller [8086:2829] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:283e] (rev 02)
02:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0832] (rev 05)
02:09.1 SD Host controller [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter [1180:0822] (rev 22)
02:09.2 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter [1180:0592] (rev 12)
02:09.3 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller [1180:0852] (rev 12)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller [11ab:4354] (rev 12)
0b:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection [8086:4222] (rev 02)
[Skined@localhost ~]$ /sbin/lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 13b1:000d Linksys WUSB54G Wireless Adapter
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 002: ID 045e:00f6 Microsoft Corp.
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05a9:2640 OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 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
[Skined@localhost ~]$ lsmod
bash: lsmod: command not found
[Skined@localhost ~]$

[waterhead]

Thank you.

You appear to have two wireless devices. There is a built-in or PCI device;

 0b:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection [8086:4222] (rev 02)

And there is a USB device:

 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 13b1:000d Linksys WUSB54G Wireless Adapter

The PCI wireless should work. All you need to do is download the card firmware, and install it in the /lib/firmware folder. The firmware can be downloaded here:
http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/iw...e-2.14.1.5.tgz

Unpack it, and put the file iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode in the /lib/firmware folder (as root). That wireless should now work, may have to reboot to get it to work the first time.

The USB wireless seems to use the rt2x00 driver, but it is hard to tell. That is the reason I need the lsmod output. Try it again using the full path:

/sbin/lsmod

[Skined]

now when you say install just copy and paste the driver to that folder /lib/firmware folder?

as for the usb one I wish to use it for aircrack would like to use the drivers that soupport it.

[waterhead]

Yes, the downloaded file is a compressed package that contains the firmware file (iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode) and two text documents. Copy the iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode file to the /lib/firmware folder.

This is all assuming that the Linux driver is loading. The lsmod output will give us that info. If it still won't work, try running it as root.

[Skined]

I found the driver I wish to install but its umcompiled I am going to try again to get it to work.
http://homepages.tu-darmstadt.de/~p_...022008.tar.bz2

[Skined@localhost ~]$ /sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by
vfat 13056 1
fat 42784 1 vfat
bridge 46104 0
bnep 14464 2
rfcomm 34576 4
l2cap 22272 16 bnep,rfcomm
bluetooth 47588 5 bnep,rfcomm,l2cap
fuse 41116 3
sunrpc 151412 3
ipt_REJECT 6784 18
iptable_filter 6528 1
ipt_MASQUERADE 6528 5
iptable_nat 9224 1
nf_nat 18072 2 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat
nf_conntrack_ipv4 11396 27 iptable_nat,nf_nat
ip_tables 13840 2 iptable_filter,iptable_nat
nf_conntrack_netbios_ns 6144 0
nf_conntrack_ftp 10660 0
ip6t_ipv6header 6016 2
xt_tcpudp 6656 44
ip6t_REJECT 7552 18
nf_conntrack_ipv6 15864 24
xt_state 5888 48
nf_conntrack 49748 8 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat,nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv 4,nf_conntrack_netbios_ns,nf_conntrack_ftp,nf_conn track_ipv6,xt_state
ip6table_filter 6400 1
ip6_tables 14736 2 ip6t_ipv6header,ip6table_filter
x_tables 15236 9 ipt_REJECT,ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat,ip_tables,ip 6t_ipv6header,xt_tcpudp,ip6t_REJECT,xt_state,ip6_t ables
cpufreq_ondemand 10124 1
acpi_cpufreq 11532 2
loop 16772 0
dm_multipath 18056 0
ipv6 221660 16 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6
sr_mod 17064 0
cdrom 32796 1 sr_mod
mmc_block 12932 2
arc4 5760 4
snd_hda_intel 330144 3
ecb 6528 4
crypto_blkcipher 17924 1 ecb
snd_seq_dummy 6660 0
snd_seq_oss 30364 0
snd_seq_midi_event 9600 1 snd_seq_oss
dcdbas 10272 0
snd_seq 48448 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
i915 84484 2
rt2500usb 24192 0
snd_seq_device 10124 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
rt2x00usb 12544 1 rt2500usb
pcspkr 6272 0
snd_pcm_oss 42496 0
video 20368 0
uvcvideo 49416 0
rt2x00lib 31744 2 rt2500usb,rt2x00usb
serio_raw 8708 0
joydev 12608 0
snd_mixer_oss 16768 1 snd_pcm_oss
output 6656 1 video
rfkill 9108 1 rt2x00lib
firewire_ohci 21636 0
compat_ioctl32 5120 1 uvcvideo
snd_pcm 67076 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
iwl3945 145244 0
firewire_core 34208 1 firewire_ohci
input_polldev 7176 1 rt2x00lib
sdhci 16908 0
snd_timer 21640 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
iTCO_wdt 13476 0
videodev 30208 1 uvcvideo
iTCO_vendor_support 6916 1 iTCO_wdt
wmi 9640 0
mmc_core 40604 2 mmc_block,sdhci
snd_page_alloc 11400 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
drm 145508 3 i915
ata_piix 20228 0
crc_itu_t 5760 1 firewire_core
snd_hwdep 10500 1 snd_hda_intel
mac80211 185184 3 rt2x00usb,rt2x00lib,iwl3945
v4l1_compat 15364 2 uvcvideo,videodev
ata_generic 8964 0
i2c_i801 11920 0
button 10000 0
snd 48312 16 snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,sn d_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd _timer,snd_hwdep
sky2 41220 0
i2c_algo_bit 8964 1 i915
battery 14084 0
ac 8068 0
pata_acpi 8192 0
i2c_core 20628 4 i915,drm,i2c_i801,i2c_algo_bit
soundcore 9288 1 snd
cfg80211 24712 3 rt2x00lib,iwl3945,mac80211
sg 31028 0
dm_snapshot 18468 0
dm_zero 5632 0
dm_mirror 26116 0
dm_mod 48980 9 dm_multipath,dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
ahci 26760 2
libata 126688 4 ata_piix,ata_generic,pata_acpi,ahci
sd_mod 25624 3
scsi_mod 120820 4 sr_mod,sg,libata,sd_mod
ext3 108424 2
jbd 40852 1 ext3
mbcache 10116 1 ext3
uhci_hcd 22928 0
ohci_hcd 22276 0
ehci_hcd 32268 0
[Skined@localhost ~]$

[waterhead]

I found the driver I wish to install but its umcompiled I am going to try again to get it to work.

I'm not sure why you want to bother. You already have drivers loading for your card. If you want the latest drivers, this is the official site:
Download - Linux Wireless

The driver modules that are loading are these.

For the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG card:

Module Size Used by
iwl3945 145244 0

And for the Linksys WUSB54G Wireless Adapter

Module Size Used by
rt2500usb 24192 0
rt2x00usb 12544 1 rt2500usb
rt2x00lib 31744 2 rt2500usb,rt2x00usb
rfkill 9108 1 rt2x00lib
input_polldev 7176 1 rt2x00lib

And for both of the drivers:

Module Size Used by
mac80211 185184 3 rt2x00usb,rt2x00lib,iwl3945
cfg80211 24712 3 rt2x00lib,iwl3945,mac80211

The driver that you linked to seems to be based on the ipw3945 driver. The ipw3945 driver is older, and has been replaced with the iwl3945.