WUSB11 Help

I know I already posted this, but I just realized this part, so please withhold the flaming.
This is my problem, I have an old version of Red Hat I would like to get on my network (it shares a box with a WinXP hard drive, dual-booting system), but I have no idea how to go about this. Completely clueless, and searches haven't turned up too much I could use. The Network Adapter is a WUSB11 from Linksys and uses the Wireless-B Protocol. Also, how do I get linux to recognize USB devices (I also have a USB hard drive for storage I would like to use)?
Thanks!

Which version of wusb11 do you have? v2.6, v2.8, etc

upto v2.8 is supported on latest tarball of driver source from
http://at76c503a.berlios.de/

lsusb lists the USB devices that linux recognizes, you will not see any names, just the Vendor ID : Product ID hex numbers at the end of each line.

Okay, thanks! I'll try to do my best? How should I configure it? I'm not sure about SSID, all I am sure about is the WUSB's IP (to access and the forwarding one, if that makes sense), the network name, and that it uses DHCP.
I'm going to try with what the docs say as well. Thanks!

ESSID is the name of the wireless network from your router.
GATEWAY is IP address of your router.

Create a /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 file


GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
DEVICE=wlan0
MTU=""
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
BROADCAST=192.168.0.255
IPADDR=""
NETWORK=""
onBOOT=yes

And I added the following lines by hand:

MODE=Managed
ESSID=myessid
CHANNEL=6
KEY="restricted [1] 8675309BEE"


The only other network configuration I needed to
have /etc/resolv.conf with
nameserver 192.168.1.1

Thanks for all the help, but now I have another problem...Linux won't boot...

I manually restarted my computer while it was on WIndows XP so I can acces Linux, but when it loaded, it failed checking file systems. I tried reinstalling twice, but to no avail.
The error message was something about something creating a short-read while searching for ext3 /boot journal. Thanks for all the help!

Sounds like disk is the going or went bad. I would try to save any files that you have on your Windows off onto a writable CD or other computer.

Only thing to try on linux side is see if you can do "linux single" from your lilo prompt.

I have linux on a seperate hard drive though, and it was working fine until I turned off myu computer from the box itself.