How to get Iinksys USB200M working?
 

Hello,
I have a Linksys USB to ethernet adapter USB200M that I would like to get working. I have no space for a pci card so that is out of the question. This is an HP ePC but the NIC is bad on it.

www.linux-usb.org says that there is a mini driver asix or the usbnet driver that will work with it. Not sure where to go with this but if I do:

modprobe usbnet system logs only show:

usbcore: registered new driver usbnet
I don't see a usb0

Any suggestions?

Kent N

lspci output
 

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 GMCH [Graphics Memory Controller Hub] (rev 03)
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801AA PCI Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801AA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801AA IDE (rev 02)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801AA USB (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801AA SMBus (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801AA AC'97 Audio (rev 02)
01:02.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)

Also Fedora core 4.

Thanks

Kent N

I would try downloading the driver here http://www.network-drivers.com/drivers/120/120250.htm and follow the tutorial on my page linked below if you can't make it work. I've never personally used a USB ethernet adapter in linux, but I've seen where others have used a windows driver and ndiswrapper to make it work. It may not be necessary to wrap a driver though, I'll try to help you check around.

It sounds like others have made their USB's work with manual settings. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/364590 I would guess if it is assigning the card a position like "wlan0" or "eth1" you can assume it knows it's a wireless device. If it isn't, you're probably stuck going the ndiswrapper route. Typing "ifconfig" as root should tell you what wireless extensions are configured.

USB200M still doesn't work
 

Hello,
I still haven't gotten this to work. I tried using ndiswrapper, but it didn't recognize the hardware. I've used ndiswrapper with USB wireless and it works well, no problems.

Kent N

It seems that Linksys released a "Ver. 2" of the USB200M and it's creating headaches for everyone (myself included). I'm trying to find the drivers as well.

Linksys wireless
 

I gave up on it and returned it to the store. Linksys should try harder to support its customers (non-Windoz).

I have a Dell with Truemobile wireless integrated adapter that works flawlessly with ndiswrapper. Ndiswrapper is a great solution for those vendors that provide no Linux support.

Kent N