Hello all,

this is my first post so please kind!

Anyway semi - linux newbie needs some help with the above device.

I am running red hat 7.3 and 9 on two different machines.
I know my USB is working on both as I have a third party USB memory device working.


Looking at

<this is a url , but I am not allowed to post these. www>linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html </this is a url , but I am not allowed to post these.>


I found my device listed and installed the nessacary RPMs making care to ensure I had the correct versions. Configured the text files as needed.

However I have the problem that upon boot up or restarting the network service i get this:

"Bringing up interface wlan0: prism2_usb device wlan0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization."

Can anyone shed any light??

I am in the EU and would that mean my Adaptec 8020 USB is different from a US one? Meaning it might not be a prism 2???

Thanks.

I'm also a newbie but I have been playing with the wlan-ng drivers for a couple months now.
I would check out the wlan-ng mailinglists, there are lots of posts about how sketchy USB support can be. On my machine, using a MSI KT600 mb and a Seimens 1022 USB Wifi card, I have to unplug the card before boot-up and plug it back in afterward. Then hotplug recognizes it (most of the time) and I'm either good to go or I just have to run a script, doing the config stuff from the wlan readme file. I also found the RPMs on the net weren't terribly reliable, plus the only ones I found were quite old. I reccomend compiling the sources. Hope something here is useful, good luck.

thanks,

suspected the rpms might be a bit old.

will keep an eye on the mailing list.

i am having exactly the same problem as you... I got Adaptec AWN8020 USB Wireless adapter, but can't install it.
I know I should use wlan-ng module, but already installed, still can't recognise my adapter...

so if you or anybody else have solution, help would highly appreciated...

sorry still have not got very far

have only used rpms , maybe if i can find some newer ones then maybe that will work.

If anyone could give me some help in compiling from source it would be appreciated.