Please Help!!!! wireless on Linksys not working

[Andrew Otte]

On Thursday 22 June 2006 5:50 pm, Faithful John wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 06:53 -0400, Faithful John wrote:
> > > I posted earlier, but it seems no one is answering... please please
> > > help me!
> > >
> > > I have the same problem as this post...
> > >
> > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=75433
> > >
> > > however, being a newbie, I have no idea what I'm suppossed to
> > > change /etc/network/interfaces to.   I've tried updating the system
> > > Dapper hoping that would make it work, but nope.   The official ubuntu
> > > network devices help doesn't have anything for this specific
> > > device.
> > >
> > > Please help!
> > >
> > > I'm running as WUSB54G (ver.2) with Ndiswrapper, it recognizes the
> > > hardware, the driver seems fine, but etc/network/interfaces i'm pretty
> > > sure is messed up.   What do i do?
>
> On 6/16/06, Andrew Otte <otte at optusnet.com.au> wrote:On Friday 16 June 2006
>
> 20:53, Faithful John wrote:
> > WUSB54G
>
> Ok
> With you need to be careful that there is not a conflict between
> ndiswrapper and the new bcm43xx driver built in to the kernel.
> Although this doc does not refer to usb it may help solve some of your
> problems.  You should try this before the interfaces file is tweaked.
> https://wiki.kubuntu.org/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx
>
> I did manage to get the system to recognize the hardware, even in breezy,
> but I never had the wireless working in Breezy, the networking tool didn't
> even a wireless interface to set.   Plus I have no idea which it's using,
> although I definatly have loaded and tried to run the ndiswrapper in
> breezy.   I'm hesistant to just get rid of ndiswrapper, how do i know I
> have the bcm43xx?
>
In Dapper the bcm43xx stuff is built into the kernel but you need to add the 
firmware to use it.  It messes with ndiswrapper if both are trying to work at 
the same time.  In Dapper if you do not turn off (blacklist) bcm43xx it will 
be in the way of ndiswrapper and  vice a versa.  The link below  explains the 
whole deal. (https://wiki.kubuntu.org/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx)  follow it 
through and it should work.  If not it is a USB issue.  Maybe you need to 
download the latest ndiswrapper and build it from source to get the best USB 
support?

> On 6/16/06, Jeremiah Foster <jeremiah.foster at theclickstore.se> wrote:
> > Start by posting a copy of /etc/network/interfaces from your machine if
> > you can.
>
> Here is the read out for /etc/network/interfaces ...
>
> # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
> # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
>
> # The loopback network interface
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> # This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.
> # They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.
> auto eth0
> auto rasub0
>
> # The primary network interface
> iface eth0 inet static
>         address 192.168.1.75
>         netmask 255.255.255.0
>         network 192.168.1.0
>         broadcast 192.168.1.255
>         gateway 192.168.1.1
>         # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if
> installed
>         dns-nameservers 192.168.1.1 24.153.22.195
>
> #wireless connection where must put in the following form
> #wireless_<function> <value>
>
> # The primary wireless network interface
> iface rausb0 inet dhcp
> # wireless-* options are implemented by the wireless-tools package
> wireless_keymode open
> wireless_mode managed
> #replace above with ESSID
> wireless_essid any
> wireless_nick tsi2
> #replace above w/ host name
>         network 192.168.1.0
>         broadcast 192.168.1.255
>         # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if
> installed
>         dns-nameservers 192.168.1.1 24.153.22.195
>         wireless-essid TSI
>         wireless-key s:286a507b99
> #        #wireless_defaultkey <number>
> #        wireless_defaultkey <286a507b99>
>
>
> iface rausb0 inet dhcp
> wireless-key s:286a507b99
>
> auto rausb0

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Andrew Otte
Laildey, Queensland
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otte at optusnet.com.au
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