USR805416 802.11g Wireless Turbo PCI Adapter

[yuri]

Hi, I'm trying to get the USR805416 802.11g Wireless Turbo PCI Adapter to work under Kubuntu.

According to http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...index.php/List this card should be well supported.

Card: US ROBOTICS USR805416 802.11g Wireless Turbo PCI Card

* Chipset: TI Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface
* pciid: 104c:9066
* Driver: Driver for Netgear WG311V2 works with WPA-PSK+TKIP: http://kbserver.netgear.com/support_...asp?dnldID=770. The driver from US Robotics version 6.0 also works with WPA-PSK+TKIP.
* Other: US Robotics donated this card to one of the developers, so this card will be fully supported. Thanks to US Robotics for their support.This driver doesn't support power management, so the device will be halted/initialized during suspend/resume, so the interface needs to be reconfigured after resume.

So what follows from this? I could try both the WG311V2 driver from the link that's specified, or I could use the driver from the US Robotics site.
I've tried both and both don't work. >

Here's the route I followed for the US Robotics driver:

cd ~
# get the windows driver from the US Robotics website
wget [url]http://www.usr.com/support/5410/5410-files/USR11g_v6.0b15.exe[/url]
# install cabextract to be able to extract the contents from this exe file
sudo apt-get install cabextract
# extract the contents:
cabextract USR11g_v6.0b15.exe
# this last command creates a directory called 'Disk1' which contains (amongst others) data1.cab and data2.cab
# install unshield to be able to extract the contents of data1.cab and data2.cab
sudo apt-get install unshield
# extract data1.cab
unshield x Disk1/data1.cab
# extract data2.cab
unshield x Disk1/data2.cab
# Now the .bin and .SYS files are in the directory called 'DrvXP', but the .inf file is in 'Inf'
# Let's move the .inf file to DrvXP
mv Inf/USR11G.inf DrvXP
# Now all the necessary files are in the right place for ndiswrapper
# Let's install ndiswrapper:
sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils
# now let's install the windows driver:
sudo ndiswrapper -i DrvXP/USR11G.inf
# check if the driver has been loaded:
sudo ndiswrapper -l
# ndiswrapper returns:
# Installed ndis drivers:
# usr11g        driver present, hardware present
# So far so good...
# Now let's create a list of kernel module dependencies
sudo depmod -ae
# load the ndiswrapper kernel module
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

At this point of the installation the driver should be up and running. Unfortunately it isn't. When looking at /var/log/messages I see:

ndiswrapper: probe of 0000:00:0a.0 failed with error -22

The led at the back of the card doesn't go on either.

The route with the other driver gave a segmentation fault when running sudo modprobe ndiswrapper.

I've been reading and reading and trying everything this weekend. I guess I've invested about 12-14 hours in this problem by now.

I've lost all hope that I will ever get this card to work. However: is there anybody out there that has been succesfull in getting this specific card to work under Kubuntu and could you please tell me what you did?

[yuri]

Re: USR805416 802.11g Wireless Turbo PCI Adapter

Anybody?

[mcfly]

Re: USR805416 802.11g Wireless Turbo PCI Adapter

i won't be ANY help whatsoever, because i'm too new at linux.

but my usr wireless card works - i believe it's the same one you have.

my problem is the "wireless assistant" won't allow me to click on the security tab.

it sees my router and everything, but i'm unable to connect to it.

btw, i have "dapper drake" from the dvd than came with the september "linux format" magazine....

[mcfly]

Re: USR805416 802.11g Wireless Turbo PCI Adapter

me again

i never did - after a few days trying - get my wireless network going. what i ended up doing was removing "dapper drake" and installing "breezy badger".

the install is not as easy, but i did it and i'm a total linux noob. wireless worked right away.

i was also able to install the latest ATI video driver, so the screen savers don't crash me. the breezy badger guide was a huge help there.

i googled "breezy badger install" and it pointed me to the live and install cds on ubuntu's website.

btw, you can't install it with the live cd (well, i couldn't). you need the install cd.

i'm a connected, and therefore happy, linux guy now.