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mcfiredrill
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 Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 7:42 am Post subject: linksys wusb11 ver 2.8 (at76 ) - how i got it to work |
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I finally got my Linksys wusb11 ver 2.8 wireless adapter to work.Here's a quick rundown:
I tried the portage ebuild at76c503a, all versions, they didnt compile.
Then I tried to compile the berlios drivers from source:
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/at76c503a/
These didnt compile either!
Then I stumbled upon this patch on the gentoo bug reports:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=169738
Saved it, then used `patch' to patch the at76_usb.c file:
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patch at76_usb.c at76_usb.patch
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It compiled!
But it still didnt work, I had to download the firmware from http://developer.berlios.de/projects/at76c503a/. Once I got that I copied all the .bin files to /lib/firmware.
I did
and I was able to successfully bring up wlan1 and connect.
Hope this helps anyone having trouble with this adapter! Should I post this on the wiki? After writing it up a little better, of course....  |
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nerdbert
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This device seems to be identical with Netgear's MA101. Just mentioning it in case someone searches for that thing.
Short rant: The MA101 was such a pain to install back when 2.6.3 was fresh(that's around 2004). Took me hours to get it running and the only way to make it work on startup was to hard-code the WEP key into the driver. I'm glad I gave it away two years ago. Interestingly I still receive mails from the at76c503a-user mailing list, so people are still using it, even though at76_usb is now in the kernel.
Which brings up this question: Why haven't you tried the kernel drivers, mcfiredrill?
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mcfiredrill
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| Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 2:37 am Post subject: |
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| nerdbert wrote: | This device seems to be identical with Netgear's MA101. Just mentioning it in case someone searches for that thing.
Short rant: The MA101 was such a pain to install back when 2.6.3 was fresh(that's around 2004). Took me hours to get it running and the only way to make it work on startup was to hard-code the WEP key into the driver. I'm glad I gave it away two years ago. Interestingly I still receive mails from the at76c503a-user mailing list, so people are still using it, even though at76_usb is now in the kernel.
Which brings up this question: Why haven't you tried the kernel drivers, mcfiredrill? |
Hmm...havn't thought about this much since I got it working...but I check my config and it appears I did compile the kernel drivers...
What really worked for me was the patch, because the ebuild from portage failed, and I could apply the patch myself if I compiled it myself.
I suppose the proper thing to do would be either try compiling the kernel drivers again(would the patch be in there? I don't see why not, since it works...but what do I know about kernel dev. ? ) or try to integrate the patch into the ebuild....
Make any sense??? |
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nerdbert
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mcfiredrill,
I don't know if it makes any sense, since I don't have a device which utilizes this driver anymore. You might want to give the kernel drivers a chance, but since you already found a solution which works for you I don't see much reason to invest time into this. There's also no guarantee that the kernel driver will work...
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