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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
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.
Last edited by Agentvenom; 10-15-2005 at 12:08 PM.
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.
Last edited by Agentvenom; 10-15-2005 at 04:15 PM.
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.
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.
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.
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