Plug in your device, then from a root console type: cat /proc/bus/usb/devices and sift through the output looking for your device's name and hopefully, a version or revision number. If you'd rather not do it from the console, (as root) you can use kedit, kate, kwrite, gedit, etc. to open the same file.

when I followed your advice, this was the output

cat /proc/bus/usb/devices
T: Bus=02 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2
B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0
D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
S: Product=USB UHCI Root Hub
S: SerialNumber=d800
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms
T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2
B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0
D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
S: Product=USB UHCI Root Hub
S: SerialNumber=d400
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms
T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=fe(app. ) Sub=01 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=066b ProdID=2211 Rev= 1.00
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=500mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=ff Driver=usbvnet
E: Ad=85(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms

I guess Rev 1.0 am I right?

Suddenly the wifi indicator I place on the panel reads 100%, and when wusb11 removed, shows n/a. Does this mean the driver has been installed properly? My notebook still doesn't detect the signal. Do I use usbtools to setup ssid and other parameters?

How come when usb is connected, and I boot into linux, wifi indicator says 100%, but i have another broadband connection, and it doesn't work. But when usb is removed first, and enter linux, internet works. Seems like usb is taking eth0, is there any instruction on this? How do I assign the lan as eth0 with the broadband connection?

Output of /etc/modules.conf
probeall usb-interface usb-uhci
above snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss
alias eth0 8139too
alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx
alias usb-controller uhci


when I try to reissue the command make config with the recent driver (the new one found at http://at76c503a.berlios.de/), output says

[jang@localhost at76c503a]$ make config
make: *** No rule to make target `config'. Stop.

How do I check whether driver was configured properly? The make config command never did work from the start.

Will appreciate any help.

first, login as root (don't just su, actually login as root), if you're in gnome, hit ctrl+alt+F2 and login there, when you're done, hit ctrl+alt+F7 to go back to gnome, or you can logout and back in, either way get to a root console.

with the device plugged in, looking at the last 20 or 30 lines of /var/log/messages should indicate that a device was registered for your adapter and what it's name is. Another tell-tale sign that it's working is if cat /proc/net/wireless exists and has meaningful numbers in it. Your other ethernet card, as long as it's not removable should always get the eth0 device name. The usb device will get eth1 or wlan0 depending. ifconfig -a should show 3 devices in it's listing, lo, eth0 and eth1, the MAC address of your wireless adapter needs to match the HWaddr listed on one of those devices, the matching one is the device name of your wireless device, use that name in place of "<dev>" in all commands that follow. iwconfig should show your device's statistics, things like essid, access point, encryption key, channel, etc. If iwconfig shows "no wireless extensions" for all 3 devices, you've got a problem anything else is ok at this point. If those 2 commands go ok, proceed to config the device:

ifconfig <dev> 192.168.x.xx using an address on your access point's subnet, ie: 192.168.1.10 if your router's ip is 192.168.1.1

iwconfig <dev> mode managed key xxxxxxxxxx essid <your router's ssid name> the "key xxxxxxxxxx" portion is optional depending on if you're using WEP or not.

iwconfig should now show all the correct info for your device, including something besides "00:00:00:00:00:00" for Access Point. here's what mine looks like at the moment:
# iwconfig
eth0 v0.1h ESSID:"wireless_hoc" Nickname:"Thinkpad"
Mode:Managed Channel:8 Access Point: 00:03:2F:06:F4:13
Bit Rate=22Mb/s Tx-Power:18 dBm
Encryption key:xxxx-xxxx-xx
Link Quality:16/0 Signal level:-136 dBm Noise level:-152 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

If it looks good, then ping -c 4 192.168.x.x using your router's ip address. If that works then add a default gateway to your router for the device:
route add default gw <your router's ip address> <dev>, with 2 ethernet cards going at once you'll need to be careful to work with the correct device name.

now check the contents of /etc/resolv.conf, there should be a line there like this: nameserver 192.168.x.x, again the ip address of your wireless access point, there's probably already a line there if your wired card is working, don't stomp on anything.

If you encounter problems, post back with the results of ifconfig -a, iwconfig, iwconfig <dev>, route and lsmod, with your device plugged in.

I'm using redhat 9.0 with my smc 2435w card and have found that the gui config tool reports my settings correctly after I set them from the console, but things are grayed-out so you probably can't use that tool for this YMMV.

Also, once things are functional, you'll want to modify and/or create /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<dev>. to put these settings in.

by the way, RedHat 9.0 is absolutely beautiful to behold and feels very fluid, well worth upgrading to.

To akaBeaVis

Funny you should mention about Redhat 9.0 I know I registered as using Redhat 9.0, but in these last case, I am actually trying Mandrake 9.1 :-) I find that I prefer Redhat 9.0 more. But in any case, if I get this to work in Mandrake, then probably Redhat too.

I don't have an access point. I am using a pc that's connected to a broadband router (in another place). My PC's lan card is getting an assigned IP address from the broadband router. I am connecting the WUSB11 device to the PC so that the Airport in the Powerbook that I am using can access the network or the internet.

I have several questions I hope you don't mind. First of all, when the USB is connected and I start linux, it is always the one getting eth0 while the lan card gets eth1. I know this because when I do an ifconfig, I see eth0 (I forgot to look whether it has a valid IP), eth1 with IP starting with 169.x.x.x and internet doesn't function. But as I've mentioned before, Wifi indicator on the lower panel indicates that I have 100% signal. When I try to unplug the USB and reboot linux, eth0 gets an IP of 203.x.x.x so this is a valid internet IP, and internet is working. If I connect the WUSB11 when I get into linux, eth1 also shows up, and Wifi indicator says 100%. When I remove WUSB11, Wifi indicator says N/A. This is the reason I suspect wifi is working. But my notebook network indicator can't detect any. Also, when I did dmesg, I do see usbvnet.c or something like that with eth1 on the same line. I wonder whether that would show that something is ok.

If the eth1 MAC address and the HWaddr of wusb11 matches, then does the <dev> mean eth1. I mean to say <dev> should either be eth0 or eth1 only right? If the wusb11 is assinged as eth1 and wlan1, will the iwconfig command still show any information? Do I still need to use wireless tools if I do the config in console? Or is that the other alternative?

Sorry I can't try the commands you indicated yet. I am currently in the office. I am eager to get home and give it a go though. Hopefully this works. I've been trying to get it to work eversince I got it.

I have to say thank you very much for all the help provided. I will post my finding :-) in a few hours.

No need to switch back to redhat, mandrake is also very nice, I've got it running on a few machines here and use mdk9.0 more than anything else. I just thought maybe you were running redhat 8 and I should let you know how slick redhat 9 is.

disregard completely my previous post, an ad-hoc connection is a different thing altogether.

Since you're attempting to set up an "ad-hoc" connection between 2 machines each using a wireless interface, you should assign each wireless interface an address on a unique-to-your-site class c subnet, like 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2, or 192.168.2.1 and 192.168.2.2, etc.

You'll want to use "mode adhoc" in your iwconfig commands and don't bother with essid, also you'll want to set both devices to the same channel(which is sometimes unnecessary), and encryption key, either "off" or a matching hex or ascii string.

I have just set this very thing up using an additional wireless card in my notebook ad-hoc'd to another notebook, here's the commands I used:
ifconfig eth1 10.0.0.1
iwconfig eth1 mode ad-hoc channel 4 key off rate 11M
route add host 10.0.0.2 eth1

here's the iwconfig, we're looking at eth1, it's the one ad-hoc'd.
# iwconfig
eth0 v0.1h ESSID:"logout_punk" Nickname:"Thinkpad"
Mode:Managed Channel:8 Access Point: 00:03:2F:06:F4:13
Bit Rate=22Mb/s Tx-Power:18 dBm
Encryption key:xxxx-xxxx-xx
Link Quality:109/0 Signal level:-147 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"" Nickname:""
NWID:off/any Mode:Ad-Hoc Channel:0
Cell: 00:00:00:00:00:00Bit Rate=11Mb/s Tx-Power=47 dBm
Sensitivity:0/65535
Retry limit:3 RTS thr=2346 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth1 is the card connected to the "other" notebook.

here is the same info for "other" notebook:
ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.2
iwconfig eth0 mode ad-hoc channel 4 key off rate 11Ma
route add host 10.0.0.1 eth0

here's the "other" notebook's iwconfig:

eth0 ATMEL REVD ESSID:""
Mode:Ad-Hoc Channel:4 Cell: 02:04:D9:3C:04:01
Bit Rate:11Mb/s
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

here's my ifconfig for notebook 1:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:2F:05:44:D2
inet addr:192.168.2.98 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:576 Metric:1
RX packets:2041 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:997 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:542280 (529.5 Kb) TX bytes:119538 (116.7 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x4800

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:8F:CF:64
inet addr:10.0.0.1 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:7422 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:118 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:385664 (376.6 Kb) TX bytes:10903 (10.6 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x4000

and here's the ifconfig for notebook 2:
h0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:BD:D0:76:D4
inet addr:10.0.0.2 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:159 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:130 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:16140 (15.7 Kb)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x120

I've left "lo" out of both of these as it's not relevant. Notice the two devices, one from each notebook that have 10.0.0.x addresses.

once you are able to ping one from the other through the ad-hoc connection, you'll need to add a default gateway to the routing table for the apple, this gateway's ip address would be the ip address of the wusb11, and you'll probably need to tell the apple to get it's dns from the same ip address, although I can't say as I'm sadly apple-less. You'll also need to tell the wusb11 in the linux machine to forward packets to <where?> your internet gateway, which I would love to elaborate on, but really haven't researched.

Hi, so far, I seem to follow your commands. But what does this line in computer 1 mean?

route add host 10.0.0.2 eth1

Does this mean that you are telling eth1 to route data to the 2nd computer's ip address, which is 10.0.0.2 and vice versa?

Also, any advice about fixing the my permanent lan as eth0 and wusb11 as eth1? I have to remove wusb11 first during login and connect afterwards in order for my internet to work.

As for the powerbook, the rendezvous feature of the Jaguar OS works very well. It detects network automatically, without need to enter ssid or channel.

Among other things, the route command tells the system which ethX interface to use to get to a particular host, so you can see you need to tell each system ad-hoc'd together to reach the other via the right interface, ie: the ethX device in ad-hoc mode. Although, if the 2 are on a unique enough subnet, it's probably not all that necessary, I just put it in for the sake of completeness.

As far as fixing the eth0/eth1 problem, the only thing I can think of that would cause a hotplug usb device to get eth0 before a pci card is an erroneous "alias...." line in /etc/modules.conf, is this the case?, can you post /etc/modules.conf?

I've no doubt that the apple will detect what it can automatically, but you've got to set up the linux box with the wusb11 to act as a router/forwarder for it, or it will be limited to connecting to that box only.

I still haven't got home yet. But I cut this from my post above. This is the output

Output of /etc/modules.conf
probeall usb-interface usb-uhci
above snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss
alias eth0 8139too
alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx
alias usb-controller uhci

I have to double check on this though, I remember there is a another line

eth1 8139too

I think it was after I removed this line from the modules.conf that the wireless indicator started to function 100% Will double check on this tonight.

After I typed the follwing commands

ifconfig eth1 192.168.2.150
[root@localhost jang]# iwconfig eth1 mode ad-hoc channel 6 key off rate 11M
[root@localhost jang]# route add host 192.168.2.151 eth1

This returned

host: Unknown host

I suppose the eth1 in the route add line is the name for the notebook's device name?

Also, when you showed me the configuration of the other notebook, that is if the other notebook uses linux as well. I intend to use the powerbook's Mac OS X and Yellowdog Linux. Do I have to configure the lan card as well inside Mac OS X? Coz I really can't imagine how. I thought the wusb11 device would broadcast IP by itself, and the mac would just pick one and assign for itself.

Sorry about the questions. Am a true beginner here.

Appreciate the help.

You have a truly interesting situation here, quite interesting. Let me just make sure I understand the details of what you're trying to accomplish. First, are there 2 machines involved or 3? One is the powerbook, the other I'll call yellowdog, is there a third or is yellowdog the one w/the internet connection that you'd like to share with the powerbook? One last thing the "airport" you mentioned is not a dedicated access point, but a device in the powerbook, right?

As far as that route command, the answer is no, eth1 is for the linux box to use...here's the breakdown of what the command is doing:

route add host x.x.x.x eth1= add a route for this particular host to the routing table/cache

x.x.x.x = the host we want to get to's ip address (the powerbook)

eth1 = tell the kernel which ethernet device to use to get to this particular host, which is necessary especially when there's more than one ethernet device in a given machine. In this case we're telling the kernel to route packets to the powerbook's ip address through the wusb11, as opposed to routing them through the 8139too card which would not be able to connect to the powerbook's wireless interface, does this make sense in the context of what you're trying to do?

As for configuring the interface on the powerbook, you may indeed find that once the ip addresses of it and the wusb11 are compatible, they'll connect, I wish I had a powerbook, but alas, I don't. If not, you would need at the very least to see to it that they use the same frequency and WEP encryption, either the same key or both off.

Even were they to be able to ping each other happily via their wireless devices, you would still need to tell the yellowdog box to act as a gateway to the router it's on (you said the wired card in that box get's it's ip address from a router?)

Assuming there is a router connected to eth0(the wired ethernet card) in the yellowdog box and that the router is acting as a dhcp server, you'll have to set the yellowdog box up to pass those packets to and from the wusb11 so the powerbook can get an ip address, a gateway address, and a dns server address to use.

It would help to see how you've set up the eth0 device, ie: dhcp, or ip address, gateway, dns, etc. can you post the contents of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1 (if it exists) and /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/sysconfig/network? (do this when the internet is working)

Hehehe, sorry about all the terms here. I have 2 machines. 1 is a PC with Windows XP Pro and Mandrake 9.1 (as of the moment :-)) installed. I have an Apple Powerbook Titanium with built-in 802.11b card that they call Airport. That's what they call the built-in device. The Apple also has 2 OS, dual-boot. One is Mac OS X 10.2 and the other is YellowDog Linux- a PowerPC version of Linux, works almost the same as Redhat, recognizing RPMs and all. Currently, my PC's wired lan card gets it's IP from a broadband router. My PC's wusb11 is shared so that my Powerbook can access the internet from anywhere around the house. Both Mac OS X and Yellowdog LInux of the Powerbook detect the internet connection shared by the PC, and work seamlessly. I can connect to the internet anytime as soon as I turn on the POwerbook, whether OS X or Yellogdog.

But what I'm trying to do here is I want to get rid (or shift slowly) of my WindowsXP, and use Linux as a desktop OS instead. In order for me to do this, I have to make sure my POwerbook can still access the net even if my PC Os is already using Mandrake. This is the reason I want to share wusb11.

Now, when I boot into Mac OS X 10.2, I don't have to set any parameter or any application, since the airport (802.11b) card auto detects the network, and I can just open the browser and connect to the net. When I do boot into YellowDog Linux, same is the case. I am thinking that if my PC's wusb11 device is shared, then I don't have to configure anything in my Powerbook and I would be able to access the net (in OS X and YellowDogLinux) as well.

I will try to post the contents of the lines above. I am again in the office, and will have to post it tonight. I hope you do understand now what I'm trying to set up :-) I am only trying to share the wusb11's internet connection, but I don't know how to get it up and working. Right now, even the indicators say 100%, I couldn't verify coz the powerbook's indicator doesn't detect the signal.

Yeah, I think I got it. Just to clarify: the wusb11 as of now in linux, does not have an "internet" connection, the other card in that box is the one with it. You must have set something up in XP for this, what was that like?

Yes, the wired lan in the PC gets it's IP from the router, which also acts as the dhcp. I did the internet connection sharing in Windows XP, the only thing this sharing does is assign the IP address of the wusb11 as 192.168.1.1 so that other wireless devices can see it. Amazingly enough, the Powerbook's 2 OS, OS X and YellowDogLinux detects this seamlessly. So I think I only need to get the wusb11 device up and share it's IP as 192.168.1.1 and maybe, the Powerbook will see it.

I need to get my new Red Hat 9 box online. Can't run CAT 5 from router to the box. Can someone walk me through the Linksys thing in this distribution?

Thanks

Help, Please. I have RedHat 9.0. I followed akaBeavis' and others' helpful instructions in this thread to install Atmelwlandriver. I think drivers are in (see them listed in /usb/ directory), but if I boot with the WUSB11 v.2.6 plugged in, I get a "panic" and freeze during boot up. If I plug in after booting up, the bar on the bottom of my window disappears and the system freezes until I unplug it. Wireless devices were part of my install, but I can't "find them" anywhere (which could well be a function of my ignorance -- very new with Linux -- only discovered how to use terminal commands a couple of days ago, although I used to work with DOS a lot). Suggestions?