Re: Wireless Woes

[Seann Clark <nombrandue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

psmith wrote:
> Seann Clark wrote:
> > Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > > Seann Clark wrote:
> > >  
> > > > I apologize, I left that out by accident. How do you pull up the 
> > > > actual
> > > > wireless network device?
> > > >     
> > >
> > > Try using NetworkManager. You'll want NetworkManager-gnome for the 
> > > GUI part
> > > too (even if you aren't using GNOME - a KDE 4 Plasma applet is under
> > > development, but at this point I can't really recommend it and we 
> > > aren't
> > > installing it by default); in its default configuration, NetworkManager
> > > doesn't do all that much for wireless devices without a GUI.
> > >
> > >         Kevin Kofler
> > >
> > >   
> > I tried NM, and it configured everything else, I just can't get/find 
> > the wireless card driver in the list, and it doesn't see the wireless 
> > card even when the module is loaded.
> >
> >
> > ~Seann
> on what type of machine is this happening? and what type of wireless 
> card?
>
> phil
*O/s: Fedora 10
Kernel:  2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 18 11:58:53 EST 2008 
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Wireless NIC: Linksys* USB Wireless Adapter - WUSB54GC
Memory: 2GB DDR2 667
MotherBoard:  Intel D945GCLF2 Mini-ITX Motherboard
CPU: Intel Atom 330 2x 1.6Ghz (Silverthorne 45nm)
Chipset: Intel 82945G (ICH7)
Graphics: Intel GMA 950
Sound: Realtek High Definition Audio
Ethernet(copper) NIC driver:  r8169 Realtek 8169 gigabit ethernet

USB Major information dealing with the WUSB54GC:
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1737:0077 Linksys
Device Descriptor:
 bLength                18
 bDescriptorType         1
 bcdUSB               2.00
 bDeviceClass            0 (Defined at Interface level)
 bDeviceSubClass         0
 bDeviceProtocol         0
 bMaxPacketSize0        64
 idVendor           0x1737 Linksys
 idProduct          0x0077
 bcdDevice            1.01
 iManufacturer           1 Ralink
 iProduct                2 802.11 g WLAN
 iSerial                 3 1.0




I hope this is enough information, and will help me with this, as such I 
have seen other distributions like Ubuntu working with this particular 
USB stick(Google turns up a large resource, and it was using ndiswrapper 
on the windows drivers where I found the chipset for the NIC).

~Seann

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