WUSB11 network interface problem

[wino_pilot]

I have just installed 11.10, and followed the same steps that successfully installed the linksys drivers fir the WUSB11 wireless device in 9,04 using the ndiswrapper. Everything seems OK up to the point where I run ifup to bring up the network interface. All the outputs in the stepwise installation are:

ndiswrapper -l returns

wusb11v4 : driver installed
device (13B1:000B) present

lsusb returns

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 D•••••••••evice 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0781:5530 SanDisk Corp. Cruzer U3 4gb SDCZ36
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB-2.0 4-Port HUB
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 043d:00bb Lexmark International, Inc. 2300 series
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0ac9:0010 Micro Solutions, Inc. BACKPACK
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 13b1:000b Linksys WUSB11 v4.0 802.11b Adapter [ALi M4301]
The last entry is the wireless device

cat /etc/network/interfaces

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid netname
wireless-key1 passwd
auto wlan0

iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.


ifup wlan0

Failed to bring up wlan0.
Failed to bring up wlan0.
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; No such device.
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; No such device.
Cannot find device "wlan0"

finally running ndiswrapper to force wlan0 to the driver yields

ndiswrapper -a 13b1:000b wusb11v4
Driver 'wusb11v4' is already used for '13B1:000B'
julie@Mercury5:/etc/ndiswrapper/wusb11v4$


Any help available

[Snowhog]

Re: WUSB11 network interface problem

Before you did all this, did you attempt to connect to the Internet just to see if 11.10 had the needed drivers/modules for the device already installed?