[bearcat]

[danleff]

Boy, looking at this device, it is going to be a bear to get it going.

Good post of the issue and instructions.

Do you have any experience with wireless networking?

I assume this is a laptop that you are using the device with?

This may be over my head, but I found some other links that may be helpful to someone that has more experience with this. There appears to be neweer drivers that may work better.

references;

http://at76c503a.berlios.de/devices.html




http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/news.html


http://at76c503a.berlios.de/


http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=59001&release_id=201712

[bearcat]

Quote:

Good post of the issue and instructions.

Thanks.

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Do you have any experience with wireless networking?

A little.

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I assume this is a laptop that you are using the device with?

No, it's a desktop with a wireless lan adapter. Model #BWU613
802.11b 11Mbps Wireless LAN USB Adaptor

www.iblitzz.com>> downloads>> BWU613802.11b 11Mbps Wireless LAN USB Adaptor
That's where the driver and instructions are located.

Thanks.

[danleff]

Not to discourage you, this will not be easy for a beginner. If you already have a router that is near the box that we are speaking of, then it would be much easier to get a PCI NIC (network) card (wired) and hook it up to the router, until you get the USB working.

Dapper Dan and I speak of this a lot. They can be had for about $10.00 and will save a lot of headaches, of course, if you have an accessible router. Look for one that is a Realtek or Syslink that should work well with your system.

[bearcat]

Allright, so I'm going to have to get a networking card? Where would I be able to find one of these?

[windows-linux-converter]

Re: D. In order for the applications to run you have to enable
CONFIG_NET_RADIO in the kernel.
in /usr/src/linux




Mandrake 10.1 doesn't have this directory #/usr/src/linux#, where is CONFIG_NET_RADIO in Mandrake?

[martouf]

all: I'm quite certain CONFIG_NET_RADIO has already been set in the Red Hat 9
and Mandrake 10 kernels.

don't worry about that part of the instructions - especially if you find the config
var set in your /boot/config-X.Y.Z file.

another hint the config var is set is when your distro includes 'wireless-tools'...

w-l-c: if you install the 'kernel-sources' package, then you'll have a /usr/src/linux dir.