On Thu January 12 2006 9:37 pm, Gregory Pittman wrote: > Claude Jones wrote: > >Sorry - it's a Microsoft branded USB access point. Actually, there are a > > fair number of networking devices made now with USB connectivity. On my > > Linux box, which does firewalling and dhcp for my LAN, I have a D-Link > > wireless access point on my LAN port which connects with cat5 to the > > ethernet port. There are two Windows machines on the LAN using these USB > > access points to connect, and that works fine. I imagine the drivers for > > this USB device are totally proprietary, and not worth hacking for Linux, > > but I thought I'd ask. > > This might be one of those situations where having a Knoppix CD or > equivalent could help, by firing up Knoppix and seeing if it recognizes > what's on this USB port on his machine. > check the output of dmesg after boot to see if it's there. Let me point to a mistake in my subject line and original post and expanded explanation, brought up by a private message from Edward Dekkers - this is not an access point, but a USB wireless card. Sorry for the confusion - I only have installed a handful of these devices and I used the wrong device ID. Many of these devices can actually serve multiple uses; for example, you can dumb down wireless routers and make them access points - so, I wrote before I thought - at my age, such confusion-lapses are no longer an option ;-) I will try your Knoppix suggestion - good idea! -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
