Latest Update.

I got it working by re-doing from scratch again.

But now my MS Optical Mouse can't work lol

Couldn't get into X because of the mouse, no lights from the led. Looks like its not been detected. Tried re-configure xfree86 but same problem.

Its a USB Mouse using PS/2 convertor.

subaru, I was only able to get this adapter working on kernel 2.6.9 Debian Sarge. The code will compile but the adapter fails to get a mac address on anything but 2.6.9 for me.

And even then the performance is less than spectacular with my Linksys router.

I could get it to work under 2.6.11.3 but my mouse not working

Is it possible you send me your 2.6.9 .config file to me at revenant@qala.com.sg?

e-mail inbound.

Ok I'm pretty new to Linux and have a few questions about that walk through. Running Fedora Core 4 Kernal 2.6 and change.

Ok, first question is about the 'make all' and 'make install' what exactly are those? I don't see any such files after running the configuration file. If they are scripts that have to be written where would I find what I need to enter into those scripts?

Second is about the file in /etc/int.d/wlan I've hand coded, and created the other files (based on walkthough information) in /etc/wlan but the file that is suppost to be in /etc/int.d/wlan doesn't exist for me. Is this due to my confusion reguarding 'make all' and 'make install'?

Ideas? Comments? Insults? all welcome. Would also be apperciative if i could peak at someone's coding if I need to hand code the files.

Thanks

Heh, actually never mind all of that.... I answered my own question by playing around a little more... realized that you just type that in...

Ok so I went through the walk through again and made sure I had all of the steps and got everything configured. However, when i go to activate wlan0 in network configuration it gives me the followling

"Determining IP information for wlan0..... failed; no link present. Check cable?"

I also tried to set up another as a wireless connection as wlan0 shows as a ethernet connection to see if that was the problem but I get the same error when trying to activate that one as well.

Any ideas?

Has anyone else noticed that the link on the original post is broken?

Also, does anyone know if this will work with the latest version of KnoppMyth?

Im also having problems with this adapter. The drivers work. Connection properties is showing that the device is recieving a signal, but its idle and I cannot get it to connect to the internet. I did everything exactly the way the howto said, except for one line: "SSID_wlan0="yourSSID"". I dont know what SSID is, so I have no idea what to set that value to. Im guessing thats the problem. Im running fedora 4 on a compaq presario 2100. So can anyone explain to me what SSID is? Or is there something else im missing?

Thanks.

Your SSID is the network you have your wireless router (or access point) set up to service. Log into your router and check what name you gave to your network inside the router. Depending on the maker of your router you should see something like:
"Wireless Network Name (SSID): (whatever you named your wireless net)"

This is off the topic, but you may find the information useful. 'gcc' is the standard compiler for C programs in Unix. So for example if I wanted to compile my C code stored in a file named HelloWorld.c, I would go to the directory that has HelloWorld.c and type "gcc HelloWorld.c".

That's fine for one or two C files. But when you've got thirty or fifty or twelve hundred different files in different directories, it gets old fast. If you need to compile something twenty times in a day, you would spend more time typing in the command than anything else. So for complicated projects, Unix and Linux use a program called 'make', which reads 'makefile' files to figure out which files need to be compiled and compiles them for you.

So when you see 'make', 'make mrproper', 'make config', 'make modules', 'make install' they all reference sections in the makefile file in the project directory. (They could have names like 'make tofu', 'make war', 'make megocrazy', it does not matter - they are just labels for a set of commands inside the makefile.)

... now that I'm done the lecture, I'm stuck myself. I'm running CentOS (based off of RedHat) and I downloaded, compiled, and instaled a 2.6.15-6 kernel image. I think I followed all of the steps for the installation correctly. Everything compiled and installed without errors, and I made the changes to the /etc/modprobe.conf, /etc/wlan files, and so forth. However, even when the modprobe succeeds and I have some prism2_usb messages in the log, I do not have a wlan0 device in my /dev directory. I'm at a loss.