Hey all,

Having a hell of a time trying to install my new Linksys WUSB12. Have read that it does work with the wlan drivers "with minor modifications to the USB tables". Well, I've downloaded the latest wlan drivers, followed the readme to the letter, have added the device info to the USB table and still no love. It loads the prism2 drivers when I insert the network card but it won't start wlan0 when I do an ifup wlan0 - tells me "no such device" is present (yes, I have set the wlan0 alias for prism2_usb).

I'm pretty much a Linux newbie though I've been reading quite a lot the past few days trying to get this thing working, and as a holdover from the DOS days I'm definitely not afraid of command line stuff. I've edited more config files already than I care to count trying to get this thing to work. Any help or other ideas?

btw, I am running Mandrake 9.1 final.

This thing?

http://www.linksys.com/products/prod...id=36&prid=519

I've never even seen one of those... Linksys has a stinky problem with changing chipsets from prism2 and not exactly telling the consumer, just blithly continuing along with a CD that has a link to linux drivers that have nothing to do with their product, the big nastiness with this came from when they switched to broadcom from prism2 for the WMP11 with version 2.7

Is there a version number to this little microstick of a toy? That might help... maybe.

Cheers,

Finegan

Well I'm going by this: http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=1721

which says it should work with the wlan drivers. The prism2 driver does seem to load, but wlan doesn't. I'm sure there's gotta be something I'm not doing right. I blame myself. I just don't know what it is that I'm not doing right, having followed all the instructions.

Oh, and I'm using a later version of the wlan drivers than listed there, which actually show the WUSB12 in the USB tables to begin with. What the heck could I be doing wrong? Since the prism2_usb module loads, which is basically what the wlan driver gives me, what else am I missing?

Here's a link lackluster found to a patch file to get the linux-wlan.net modules to load for it, evidently its just another Prism2 USB chipset.

Cheers,

Finegan