D-Link USB Wireless card won't work

opensesame11 · 10-28-2010, 09:45 PM

I have a WUA-2340 USB Adapter manufactured by D-Link. This is my first day using a Linux based cloud OS, so please give me as much detail as possible in your answers.

I need some drivers for my USB Wlan device. Any suggestions?

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!

markush · 10-29-2010, 02:25 AM

Hello opensesame and welcome to LQ,

the first step is to find out if your USB-device is recognized by the kernel/OS. Please open a terminal and post the output of

Code:

sudo lsusb

or

Code:

/usr/sbin/lsusb

respectively.
Also you may post the output of

Code:

dmesg | tail

(directly after putting the USB-device in)
The following step is to find out if the appropriate modules are loaded (in the windows-world we would speak about the "driver"). The command is "lsmod" on the commandline. So please post the output of

Code:

lsmod

.
Markus

opensesame11 · 10-31-2010, 12:08 PM

I have found that my device is recognized, and even went through installing ndiswrapper, wicd and have still no luck. My device ID is 07d1:3a08.

THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU for your help. You have gotten me 100 steps closer!

markush · 10-31-2010, 01:49 PM

Hello opensesame11,

I'm happy to read that you went further with your network. The next steps would be to configure the device for your Wireless network. Google for "wpa_supplicant", this is program is responsible for the authentication in your Network (maybe there is an easier more automatic way in your distro). And try "iwconfig" as well as "ifconfig" to check your devices.

Markus

opensesame11 · 11-03-2010, 08:46 PM

Markush, you are a GENIUS! I can't say how pleased I am! You are AMAZING!

Thankyou so much.