Linksys WUSB54G v4.0

plbeane94 · n00b Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 1

Does anybody know if this is compatible with Gentoo, or is there a driver out of somesort?

Thanks,
Patrick

netcetera · Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 6:20 pm Post subject:

I haven't tested it much, but I followed the WIKI article:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_rt2400_and_rt2500

and gave it a go in Kismet and it worked fine.

That said, I haven't actually connected to an AP yet so I can't comment on WEP, WPA, etc.

One thing to note is that as the package is masked you need to add an entry to

lindegur · Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 8:56 am Post subject:

I have the wusb54gc up and running and make this post using it. :lol:

See:https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-485938-highlight-wusb54gc.html
It uses (or it is compatible) with http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm RT2571 and rt2671, so I wonder about the differences to rt2570. Maybe minor maybe major :roll:

Does somebody know the difference between the two drivers: rt73usb and rt2570 :?:

I think both are for the same hardware, rt73usb is from the rt2x00 project and rt2570 is from ralinktech.

I have tryed out the RT2500 but it did not find my wusb54, maybe I gave a try to RT2570 but it does not emerge on my computer.
rt73usb works fine to go in Internet, to lock what's up using Wireshark.

With some tricks I also have managed that it works with Kismet:
I added in /etc/kismet.conf something like this: source=rt2500,wlan0,your_username including a wrong but kismet accepted driver.The wlan driver must not occupied by the regular LAN connection so:
ifconfig wlan0 down to make it available
iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor to go into monitor mode
iwconfig to verify
kismet