Hi,

I am very confused about my USBs. My current goal is to get the internet working on my slackware version, but i'm having no joy at all. I think i have tracked the problem down the fact that my network card does not light up when the computer is turned on. So i guess that it means that my USB is fundamentally not working.

When i google or search on these forums people always talk about usb memory sticks etc or digi cams, but not anything like a network adapter. So do i need to mount my USB, because it isnt a place that i will be storing anything but i dont know what else to do?!

Is there any difference? Or am i barking up the wrong tree?

Thanks In Advance...

Am I correct in assuming you have a USB network adapter? If so what type is it?

Thanks,
-Nick

I have a Netgear WG111T.

I have tried ndiswrapper which works but it can't find the hardware when the modules are installed, which i presume is because i have not set up my USB's.

If you plug it in and call the command dmesg in the terminal, you can see if the system has detected it.

well after putting the card in please post the lsusb!! and try getting drivers for linux instead of using ndiswrapper i'm sure there must be drivers available for NetGear hardware.

Okay guys...
I cut out some of dmesg because it was so long and i have no option but to write it down by hand, so i basically just wrote down stuff that ended with errors or sounded like it might have something to do with this

dmesg says:
Linux Version 2.4.31 (root@tree) (gcc version 3.3.5) #6 Sun Jun 19:04:47 PDT 2005
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_host adapter, errno =2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_host adapter, errno =2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_host adapter, errno =2

agpart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory : 438M
agpart: no supported devices found

isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards..
isapnp: No Plug And Play device found

Intel ISA PCIC Probe: not found
Darabook TCIC-2 PCMCIA probe: not found

ds: no socket drivers loaded!

and lsusb does nothing, so i did lsusb -v and that also did nothing.

And i'm pretty sure that my card doesn't have a native driver but either way ndiswrapper should work fine when i have this sorted out.