I've gotten the at76c503 modules loaded, and have them appearing correctly in lsmod. However, when I try to configure the device with "iwconfig wlan0 channel 11 mode infrastructure essid drewsbury" I am greeted with the error "SET failed on device wlan0 ; No such device."

When I check the syslog, I see the error "/etc/hotplug/usb.agent: ... no modules for USB product d5c/a002/100".

So it basically appears that RedHat 9.0 can't see the belking USB adaptor. Any ideas? I've been searching all over Google and can't seem to find an answer.

I will say I am very impressed with these forums. They have helped me answer numerous questions so far trying to set up my wireless before I stumbled upon this most recent roadblock. Thanks for the feedback.

Join the club. I'm using Mandrake 9.2 but faired no better. I gave up after a week of trying with the Belkin USB. Finally I strung 40 feet of cable under the basement floor and hardwired to my router. I also tried it with a Netgear USB which has the Prism chip set rather than the Atmel, but had no luck there either.

I would have gone cat5, but I'm living in my roomie's house, and he doesn't have a basement, so he doesn't want to run cat5, as it would involve way too much work wiring the bottom floor. So I guess I'm going to have to wait and see if 11g is any better than 11b, and get a couple of new wireless cards. Yes, a couple. I have a DWL120 as well, and can't get it to work either.

You'll probably have worse luck with 11G than 11B. 11B is older technology and people have been hacking on it longer. It's less likely that the newer devices will have been reverse engineered yet.

The root of the problem is the device manufacturers will not produce Linux drivers themselves and they won't release their specs to programmers in the open source community who could. Just scan all the postings to this forum. They're almost all the same. I can't get <wireless_device> working on <Linux_flavor>.

If we could impress upon the manufacturers that it is in their be$t interest to do it most of these problems would be gone.