It managed to install it's own drivers, along with the help of the following site: http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/atmel_92.htm

Now the only problem I have is that about 50% of the time I boot the computer, the kernel gets some weird error about the Interrupt Handler not syncing and then smatters the screen with addresses and usb references. It only has this problem while this network adapter is installed.

I'm going to just toss the piece of junk and buy a wireless bridge. No potential driver issues there :).

GoSix

It works fine for me.
I had that problem with the older driver, in my case it could be fixed by unplugging the USB cord from the computer, and then plugging it back in (not when an OS was started, either during the BIOS screen or when the computer is off).

If that doesn't work, edit /etc/modules.conf (it may be conf.modules or something similar in Mandy) and try changing "alias usb-controller uhci" to "alias usb-controller usb-uhci".
If it says ohci instead of uhci for you, just do the same thing, except use "ohci" instead of "uhci".

The only problem other than that I've had was the driver didn't remember it's configuration settings when the computer was restarted, but that was easily fixed with a script.

I could not get it to work with ANY drivers i found, including those you pointed out, every one of them had the same error, saying that 'gcc' is not a valid command.

Mikewitt, that just means you don't have the program necessary to compile the drivers installed. GCC is the GNU C Compiler, and it's needed for installing alot of things.

I see that you're using RedHat, so just put the first RedHat CD in, and install all the developement tools (you probably can get by with only installing some of them, but I don't remember which are needed).
After the developement tools are installed, try installing the first driver again.

Mods: Is replying to problems in the HCL acceptable? Or would it be better to start a new thread for helping people? The HCL is new, so I'm not sure what is considered good behavior. Thanks.

I didn't realize it, but this actually worked out of the box.

Here's what happened - while installing Mandrake 10, the wlan0 interface was showing up as a VIA PCI bridge from my motherboard. So, I ignored it and spent a day trying different drivers for the Linksys, to no avail.

After installation, from console, running lsusb showed my LInksys card! Hmmm...

Then I decided what the heck - I'll go through the system configuration tool and set up my WAP settings and see what happens. I chose the wlan0 interface (even though it showed a VIA bridge instead of the Linksys). I chose the atmel driver from the Mandrake-provided list (there are 3 - I think I chose the one with the 4-letter acronym in the name - RMFP or something like that). I put in my channel, SSID, WEP key, DNS info, gateway, etc, and....

Voila. It's working. That was all there was to it.

I couldn't be happier :)

Hello !

I have trouble installing my Linksys WUSB11 2.6 (FCC ID : PKW-WISB11-V26)

I have done the following :

1. I've installed Mandrake linux (should i configure the kernel or recompile it ?)
2. I've followed these explanations :

http://at76c503a.berlios.de/

but I didn't understand how to compile the sources:

http://at76c503a.berlios.de/support.html#compile

3. So I downloaded the sources corresponding to my kernel : 2.6.8.1 and place them in the usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1 directory, i tried next to configure the kernel typing : "make xonfig" or "make config" but it doesn't work....

Can someone help me please ?

thanks

You probably shouldn't need to compile the kernel sources, if they're not currently present, then you need to install the RPM with the kernel sources in it. It should be on your Mandrake CD.

Ok... but could someone who have succeded installing this device explain to me the steps he/she has made ?

I'm a newbie and I need it for my school to finish a work... I need Internet to do it...

I have a fresh install of Mandrake 10.1 with Kernel above...
Or anyway a link to a resource who could help me I don't understand what to do ???

edit (07.01.2005 16:48) :

thank you pilot1, I'm not at home for now, but as soon as I am I'll try and tell you news about it...

You're using a 2.6 kernel, so you'll need to download the source from CVS. I uploaded what I think is the best CVS code to: http://ironbox.org/~rubberducky/at76c503a-CVS-05062004.tar.bz2
download it, and extract it. cd into the directory it creates. Type "make" and once that finishes type "make install". If either have errors be sure to post the errors here.
Next, type "modprobe usbdfu", then "modprobe at76c503" and then "modprobe at76c503-rfmd". The device should now show up as either wlan0 or eth0. If you type iwconfig, it should be listed there.
Next, set the IP of wlan0 (or eth0, whichever it shows up as) with mandrake's configuration tools, and use iwconfig to set the correct ssid/wep/channel for the card.
e.g. this will set the channel to 6, the mode to infrastructure/managed, the essid to linksys, and the wep to 0000 on a card that shows up as wlan0:
iwconfig wlan0 channel 6 mode managed essid linksys enc 0000

Hello,
so, pilot1, here's the error I get when I type 'make' after following your instructions

[ental@localhost at76c503a-CVS-05062004]$ make
mkdir -p .tmp_versions
cp /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/build/.tmp_versions/*.mod /home/ental/at76c503a-CVS-05062004/.tmp_versions
cp: ne peut évaluer `/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/build/.tmp_versions/*.mod': No such file or directory
make: [modules] Erreur 1 (ignorée)
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/build SUBDIRS=/home/ental/at76c503a-CVS-05062004 MODVERDIR=/home/ental/at76c503a-CVS-05062004/.tmp_versions
EXTRA_CFLAGS="-g -DDRIVER_VERSION=\"v0.12beta11\" " modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/build: No such file or directory. Arrêt.
make: *** [modules] Erreur 2


N.B.:In english : "Ne peut évaluer" means "cannot evaluate".

Then I've tried to install the kernel sources from CD, but
RPMDrake has freezed many times even if I reboot... I'll try to reinstall tomorrow....

Meanwhile I've installed a mandrake on Virtual PC and it's working... I can install the sources and get past the "make" but this time it stops on the "make install"... I'll try tomorrow on the fresh install

I think the problem is that the kernel sources aren't installed.. have you given rpmdrake much time before you decided it froze?
I don't use Mandrake so I can't help you much with installing them, maybe you could post in the Mandrake forum and ask about it?

amerok: try this command - urpmi kernel-source. If that doesn't work, look up an RPM mirror and add it to your list of sources, and try again.

Works flawlessly in:
- Fedora Core 3
- Mandrake 10.0 OE
- Mandrake 10.1 OE

Works nicely for so cheap, and you can *really* boost the signal from that omni with some proper cookware :D