not sure if this has been answered yet but, will a wireless USB device work with RH8????

if u find the right driver... yes.. or if ur card is supported.. yes.. if not... no

Question to akaBeaVis

Hello again. Sorry it's only now that I write back. I gave my linux distro a thought, and decided Redhat is definitely more suitable for me. I have some info with me. Hope you still have time to help.

vi /etc/modules.conf

alias eth0 8139too
alias usb-controller usb-uhci
alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx_audio
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
alias char-major-195 nvidia

cat /proc/net/wireless gives me all 0s

ifconfig -a shows my wusb11 as wlan0

iwconfig shows me

lo no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"okuwlan" Nickname:"okuwlan"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Channel:10 Cell: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:11Mb/s
RTS thr=1536 B Fragment thr=1536 B
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth0 no wireless extensions.

cat /proc/bus/usb/devices

T: Bus=02 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2
B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0
D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
S: Product=USB UHCI Root Hub
S: SerialNumber=d800
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms
T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2
B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0
D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
S: Product=USB UHCI Root Hub
S: SerialNumber=d400
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms
T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=fe(app. ) Sub=01 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=066b ProdID=2211 Rev= 1.00
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=500mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=ff Driver=at76c503-i3861
E: Ad=85(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms



My Wifi indicator below says N/A.

Just a reminder of what I'm trying to do:

I don't have an accesspoint.

I'm trying to link my PC (which has a wusb11 LInksys device) with my Apple Powerbook (using built-in wifi) so I can share my internet from the PC. The PC is getting it's IP from a broadband router. The PC is connected to the router via another lan card, eth0.

Hope above data helps.

By the way, the last time I said I found it working, the driver was usbvnet. It doesn't show this time at cat /proc/bus/usb/devices, instead at76c503-i3861 is present. And last time I got it to work, it was actually accessing an accesspoint of a neighbor.

Thanks.

Jang,
Without changing anything else, assign an ip address to the wlan0 device of 10.0.0.1, this would be "ifconfig wlan0 10.0.0.1". Assign the powerbook's wireless device an ip address of 10.0.0.2, don't worry about broadcast or netmask, these values are typically assumed from the ip address assigned.

Once the wlan0 device has an ip address, do an iwconfig and see if anything looks different, at the very least "Cell" should not be all 0's. If it remains all zeros even after you assign wlan0 an ip address, then most likely the wrong module is loaded for your device.

Next, you need to set both devices to adhoc-mode, and the same channel and rate, and just for testing, no encryption key. Also for testing purposes, don't use rate "auto", set an actual data rate. This would be "iwconfig wlan0 mode Ad-hoc rate 11M channel 1 key off" for the wusb device, and I'm sure you know where on the powerbook to set these things up for it's wireless device. If indeed the wireless device in the powerbook is an 802.11b compliant device, you should be able to ping back and forth, one thing that occurs to me is that perhaps the device in the powerbook is a bluetooth device? If so, I'm not sure it's going to work.

I'm crossing my fingers right now. Hopefully when I try it later, everything will work. You're instructions are very clear. Let me try them and I'll let you know asap. Yes, my powerbook is 802.11b compliant. Even in linux, internet is ok when my PC is in windows XP with internet connection sharing enabled.

Thanks.

Unfortunately, i too am having a problem getting my wusb11 ver 2.6 to work on my slackware 9.0. i read most of the information that corresponds to my problem and i still can't fix it. i'm a linux newbie. someone plz help me!

[edit] forgot to say that i am using the atmel driver and it gives errors when i run make all and when i run make install. also, i changed the .vnetrc configurations, but i don't know whether i need to use eth1 or eth0. when i try eth1 it says eth1 is not a device. ahhhhhhh! maybe eth0 or someodd will work.

after doing all of the above, here are the results

[root@localhost root]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"okuwlan" Nickname:"okuwlan"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Channel:1 Cell: 02:00:C7:85:AC:A7
Bit Rate=11Mb/s
RTS thr=1536 B Fragment thr=1536 B
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth0 no wireless extensions.

You were right, before I assigned an ip address, cell numbers were all 0s. So does this mean I'm using the right driver? I'm afraid I can't verify whether wifi is already working. Wasn't able to bring home the powerbook today. I'll do it tomorrow and update you.

Thanks as usual.

Jason

Jang,
Good work. This looks good for an ad-hoc connection, your driver appears to be correct and the device looks to be functional. If you are near any other 802.11b devices, you can set the interface for "promiscuous" mode and see if any tx/rx bytes show up on ifconfig calls, if you *both* rx/tx bytes, that should demonstrate that it's working. Do this with "ifconfig wlan0 promisc" to turn this mode back off use "ifconfig wlan0 -promisc", it's a long shot but you may pick up some stray packets.

dj_pricetag,
unfortunately, most of the dialogue between myself and ematrixxx in the thread wherein we got his wusb11 working occurred via AIM, so posting a link to that thread won't be all that helpful to you, I apologize for that, it's a mistake I won't be making again as only one person was helped and now others can't benefit from the private AIM conversation. In any case, here's what we need to do to get this device working for you, first: for that device the berlios drivers are my recommendation over the atmelwlandrivers, as they don't have a problem with usb-uhci crashing the machine. So here's a link to a howto for using those drivers and Manrake 9.1. This should get you started, there are differences in configuration between mandrake and slackware, so post back if something in the howto doesn't work for you. here's the link

http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/atmel.html

You'll need to install the kernel source for slack9, the easiest way to to that is go to the slackware.com page and then "get slack", then browse the packages for 9.0 and you'll see the kernel source package. All references to RPM's in the howto above should be ignored since Slack uses a different package management system.

I'm also trying to get this thing working....
I've tried akaBeaVis's instructions and also this http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/atmel.html tutorial
both result in linux freezing

anyone know why this is happening?

do you have a line near the end of your log (/var/log/messages) that has "setup at76c503-xxxxx for usb product" in it and does it also show another module on that line named something else? If so add the *other* module(s) names as listed there to /etc/hotplug/blacklist and try again. He talks about this in the howto and says it doesn't seem to hurt anything but that if it does to remove the module. This might be the problem, or might not.

here is the line i found in var/log/messages:

Sep 16 00:56:56 localhost /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usbvnetr at76c503-rfmd usbvnet_rfmd for USB product 77b/2219/100

Ok, that's 3 modules and you only need the at76c503-rfmd module, so unplug your device, open /etc/hotplug/blacklist and add a line to the end with "usbvnetr" and another line with "usbvnet_rfmd" then save it and re-plug your device.

well I added those two lines to etc/hotplug/blacklist
and replugged the device and nothing happened it seems.
I looked under etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ and I dont see any cfg file for wlan the only one is "ifcfg-lo"

BTW thanks for the help thus far

are you now past the point where it was freezing? does lsmod show the correct module loaded? what does ifconfig -a show? what about iwconfig?