help with linksys wusb54gc usb wireless

[waterhead]

It doesn't appear to be linking the device to the driver. I am not sure how to get it to do this in Ubuntu. Maybe some Ubuntu Guru can chime in and tell us how to do this.

You did say that you were posting, using the 4212 wireless card. But the output of iwconfig shows no active wireless connections. I'm confused.

[reed9]

You did say that you were posting, using the 4212 wireless card. But the output of iwconfig shows no active wireless connections. I'm confused.

You know, I've noticed this with the wl driver. On my Dell Mini 9 running Arch, I use wicd to manage the network, and iwconfig shows eth1 just as here, without a network association. It's weird.

[rastro123]

sorry, what I meant to say was that I'm using a friends connection with my inbuilt wireless- broadcom 4312- :
boo@boo-laptop:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11 Nickname:""
Access Point: Not-Associated
Link Quality:1 Signal level:175 Noise level:166
Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:0 invalid misc:0

pan0 no wireless extensions.

boo@boo-laptop:~$

This info interested me, but cant remember how I found it!

[rastro123]

02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 137d
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at de200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: wl
Kernel modules: wl

[waterhead]

Still a bit confused.

If the BCM4312 is in the computer that you are also posting with, then you are using it. Is it also the same computer that you are trying to get the rt2870sta driver to work?

Also the wlan0 desiganation for a wireless is usually just an alias, assigned by the system.

[waterhead]

rastro123: If you recall at the beginning of this thread, I wasn't sure which driver would mke this wireless work. My best guess was the rt2870sta, but it doesn't appear to be working.

Re-read the first few posts where I mention somw other drivers. You may want to try the rt3070sta driver, then even the rt73 driver.

Otherwise, you may just have to use NDISwrapper for this. NDISwrapper uses the WinXP driver to make a wireless work. Vista drivers won't work, it must be a WinXP/W2k driver.

[rastro123]

0k, look, thanks very much for all you guys help. very much appreciated.