Linksys USB Network Adapter

[minitual]

Hey, I just got Gentoo up and running and am currently connected to a wired network just for the installation.
I have a Linksys WUSB54 version 4 USB network adapter. I emerged wireless-tools and am trying to get iwconfig to recognize it. When I type iwconfig when my network adapter is plugged in the output is:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 no wireless extensions.

I am currently running the internet through eth0.
I don't really even know where to begin here. In the KDE Info Center it recognizes the USB device and says:
Wireless-G USB Network Adapter
Manufacturer: Cisco-Linksys
among some other things that didn't seem relevant.

I would check the Linksys site for the drivers but that part of the site looks like it is down.
Any advice?

[SLR-722]

I'm sure I had the wusb54 working in FreeBSD and Gentoo.With the FreeBSD install is was using ural drivers , cannot remember what I did during the Gentoo install but I can't recall it being too taxing.

I assume you've built in wireless usb support in the kernel?


# Someone else in the forums has posted some info using a wrapper with the device , might be of help to you.

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-568213-highlight-linksys+usb.html

And after a quick forum search more more info here ,

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-520872-highlight-linksys+usb.html

[minitual]

I followed through on both links.
ifconfig -a:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:20:A8:A2:97
inet addr:192.168.1.3 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4501 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4342 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4312269 (4.1 Mb) TX bytes:779823 (761.5 Kb)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
lspci:
0:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 915G/P/GV/GL/PL/910GL Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 04)
00:02.0 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family Graphics Controller (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 04)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 04)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 04)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 04)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 04)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 04)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d4)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FR (ICH6/ICH6R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 04)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FR/FRW (ICH6R/ICH6RW) SATA Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 04)
03:01.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev 01)
03:01.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (Secondary) (rev 01)
03:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562ET/EZ/GT/GZ - PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 04)

dmesg | grep eth
e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xdfbdf000, irq 22, MAC addr 00:13:20:A8:A2:97
e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex

i then followed this wiki (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_wmp54gs) and loaded the drivers that worked for windows which was rt2500

ndiswrapper -i rt2500usb.inf
installed correctly

the sys and cat versions of that driver (i didnt know if they had to be installed) gave a little warning and said it might not be installed correctly.
i modprobed the ndiswrapper and received no error

i then echo "ndiswrapper" >> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
which just put the word ndiswrapper into that empty file

i then edited my /etc/conf.d/net file to this
# This blank configuration will automatically use DHCP for any net.*
# scripts in /etc/init.d. To create a more complete configuration,
# please review /etc/conf.d/net.example and save your configuration
# in /etc/conf.d/net (this file :]!).

#config_eth0=("dhcp")
#dhcp_eth0="nodns nontp nonis"

iface_wlan0="dhcp"

ln -s /etc/init.d/net.lo /etc/init.d/net.wlan0
rc-update add net.wlan0 default

modprobe ndiswrapper && /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start
* Starting wlan0
* You are using a deprecated configuration syntax for wlan0
* You are advised to read /etc/conf.d/net.example and upgrade it accordingly
* Bringing up wlan0
* dhcp
* network interface wlan0 does not exist
* Please verify hardware or kernel module (driver) [ !! ]


it seems like its the drivers that arent working. where should i go next? try different drivers? im completely lost here.

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also this page looked promising: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_wusb54gv4

but when emerging the rt2570 i recieved this:
emerge rt2570

* Checking for suitable kernel configuration options...
* SMP Processors and Kernels are currently not supported
* Please check to make sure these options are set correctly.
* Failure to do so may cause unexpected problems.
* Once you have satisfied these options, please try merging
* this package again.

!!! ERROR: net-wireless/rt2570-20070209 failed.
Call stack:
ebuild.sh, line 1637: Called dyn_setup
ebuild.sh, line 704: Called qa_call 'pkg_setup'
ebuild.sh, line 44: Called pkg_setup
rt2570-20070209.ebuild, line 19: Called linux-mod_pkg_setup
linux-mod.eclass, line 464: Called linux-info_pkg_setup
linux-info.eclass, line 572: Called check_extra_config
linux-info.eclass, line 471: Called die

!!! Incorrect kernel configuration options
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
!!! A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/rt2570-20070209/temp/build.log'.

EDIT:
I used genkernel so SMP is probably not needed, currently recompiling the kernel and planning to re-emerge the rt2570 driver.
EDIT2:
that did nothing but cause different errors in the r2570 emerge


Could you tell me more about this ural package? I googled but couldn't find anything of substantial substance.

EDIT3:
Looked on the site about the ural package.
Doesn't look usable anymore considering you can't emerge ural-linux and the last post was in January of 2006.