C0deZer0
Oc'D To Rhythm And Police
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join:2001-10-03
Davenport, FL
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| Need help getting this thing online
Hi,
I installed Ubuntu 8.04 on this old Gateway E-3400 tower system. Anyways, I'd promised I would give this system to my newest roommate soon as he could find a way to get it online.
Long story short, he comes by and brings over a Linksys WUSB54GC adapter, even though I'd told him that he should have looked for a PCI card. So now I've the burden of trying to get the damned thing to work. And unfortunately, I've no way of putting this system somewhere where I can then connect an Ethernet cable to it in the meantime. And it has to be wireless because nobody wants to be tripping over ethernet cables @ 3am in the morning. 
So I plug it in, nothing happens. I go to the network settings and it appears to at least recognize wireless capability. I type in the connection information needed, disabling roaming, typing in the SSID and WPA password, set to DHCP... and yet not a damned page loads or anything.
I am about as completely newb to Linux and have a deep hatred for command lines and terminals.
Honestly, I don't know what the *expletive* to do. Suggestions? and by god, if someone dares tell me "read the HOWTO/man pages" that are about as comprehensible as iraqi tech support, I'm putting Windows on this thing for good.
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evilghost
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join:2003-11-22
Springville, AL
·Windstream
| 'SerialMonkey' drivers...
»ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=772077
»ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=516649 |
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Hayward
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join:2000-07-13
Key West, FL
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May 12th, @07:29AM
| reply to C0deZer0
Not familiar with the device just how does it connect??? If Ethernet, it should be seen, though you might need to know its CPanel IP to access configure it, if it wasn't already, for your net connection.
EDIT... OK I Googled it, and though literature, makes NO platform specificness, implies any USB notebook, it has drivers for BOTH XP and VISTA (no Mac) which says it is a VERY non standard device. I have had good luck with standard USB devices in Linux, even some I did not expect too.
But if this is a device that requires non OS included drivers for XP and VISTA, it would definately seem to be a pretty proprietary device.
Also it seems to be ONLY G compatible from the literature/data sheet, is the wireless you are trying to connect to G, or maybe just A/B.
Otherwise good luck with the serial monkey links above, most seem to have had success. but not exactly a 100% thing, and some system monkeying (running scripts) not just clicking.
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Ctrl Alt Del
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join:2002-02-18 | reply to C0deZer0
»https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDo···WG311_v3
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C0deZer0
Oc'D To Rhythm And Police
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join:2001-10-03
Davenport, FL
·Verizon Online DSL
| And just an update.
Since the Linksys WUSB54GC didn't even work all that well on the computer in Windows XP, I decided to say "f*** it" and got the Netgear WG311v3 from Best Buy. So far it's already working like a charm and getting pretty respectable speeds. |
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salahx
join:2001-12-03
Saint Louis, MO | reply to C0deZer0
Well, its a moot point now, but there IS a "libertas" driver (as of 2.6.22), assuming it has that chipset (unfortunately some manufacturers change the hardware but not the model number). |
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