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Rªdical_£D · 12-01-2004, 07:48 PM

I'm trying to install this but I'm fairly new at this. What RPMs do I need. I already installed make, gcc, glibc-devel, and cvs. Also, how does "make all" compile the code. When I enter that, it says it doesn't know what "all" is.

12-07-2004, 11:43 AM

Instead of using make all, try just using make. I didn't have any problems with the install after altering that step.

Additionally, this web site might be of use to you.

http://at76c503a.berlios.de/

Good luck and I hope you get it up and running. I know mine works like a dream.

~VS

Unregistered · 12-15-2004, 10:46 PM

It doesn't work. When I run make, it says:
mkdir -p .tmp_versions
cp /lib/modules/2.6.5-7.111.5-default/build/.tmp_versions/*.mod /home/Gene/Documents/at76c503a/.tmp_versions
cp: cannot stat `/lib/modules/2.6.5-7.111.5-default/build/.tmp_versions/*.mod': No such file or directory
make: [modules] Error 1 (ignored)
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.5-7.111.5-default/build SUBDIRS=/home/Gene/Documents/at76c503a MODVERDIR=/home/Gene/Documents/at76c503a/.tmp_versions \
EXTRA_CFLAGS=" -DCOMPILE_FIRMWARE_INTO_DRIVER" modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.5-7.111.5-default/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [modules] Error 2

dping · 01-13-2005, 10:25 PM

The steps above only work for someone who has their kernel source, which is another matter in itself. The errors in the previous post are due to lacking kernel source files.

Mandrake 10 worked with this adapter right out of the box (excellent).
Mandrake 10.1 has given me problems with driver loading, but that may not be a distribution issue.

dping · 05-24-2005, 11:41 AM

Yes, this is me again.

Installed the adapter under Mepis relatively error-free. Mepis, however does not have the drivers installed by default yet (as of 3.3 and 3.3.1) and they must be installed manually. Though once the install is complete, the adapter works quite well.

I did lose connection once after a long period without a reboot and had to rmmod and modprobe the driver to get the connection back, but that is the only trouble I have had.

For info on how to install the drivers under Mepis, see the following thread.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=306829
^-- the thread is for WUSB11 v2.6, but for v2.8 simply modprobe the at76c505_rfmd2958 driver rather than the at76c505_rfmd or at76c505_i3861 .

Bobymc · 05-09-2006, 12:08 PM

It works out well.

Wynd · 05-12-2006, 03:11 PM

This product works fine with the at76c505-rfmd2958 module from the berlios site above. However, it seems a bit slow (though that could be due to my 802.11B network).

wantabee · 05-21-2006, 09:44 PM

As a newbie, these instructions took me 6 attempts to perfect my understanding. At the end of the day, my Linksys wireless USB (v2.8) is working quite nicely.
Points to pass along: step 4 caused agony. Be sure to do a man on cvs and understand co stands for checkout AND be in the right directory when executing the cvs command. Secondly, if 'cd' doesn't seem to work in step 6, try 'su-' in step 5. Thanks to all the folks at linuxquestions that helped me.

Wynd · 01-01-2007, 03:40 AM

I used the at76c505-rfmd2958 driver from the at76c503 package and it works fine with two exceptions.

1. It seems to cause kernel panics sometimes when transferring large amounts of data at once (e.g., uploading an MP3 file). No clue on this.

2. When using DHCP, there needs to be about a 5-second delay between configuring the adapter with iwconfig and calling dhcpcd. I did this by adding 'sleep 5' at the end of my wireless config script.

GotWick · 02-23-2009, 10:38 AM

I am not sure if I even need to do all this, since there are no reviews for the last 2 years, but I can't get my Linksys WUSB-11 v. 2.8 to work. When I first installed Ubuntu, it showed up in my network devices, but wouldn't connect to the network. I think I deleted it from the list, and now I can't get it to show up again, also, when I try to reboot, it hangs at one of the bluetooth items when I have the wireless adapter plugged in to the usb port.

Anyhow, I tried all these instructions, but get stuck at #4, the cvs part. Where it says " 'pwd' ", am I supposed to type in a password? If so, what password would it be, the authorization one? (cuz I tried, but got nowhere)

This is what I get:

rsh: Could not resolve hostname pwd: Name or service not known
cvs [checkout aborted]: CVS_repos/CVSROOT: No such file or directory``````

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Doris Rush-Lopez
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