Kubuntu With USB Wireless Adapters

[Michael W. Holdeman]

On Friday 16 March 2007 11:07:37 pm Macario Valle wrote:
> I have a one og those linksys wireless G internal cards, sold over at
> office depot for about $19.99.  Now Edgy does not recognize what it is,
> says unknown, but it is smart enough to find out it is wireless.  I went
> to System Setting--> Network Setting, configured the wireless essid to
> my regular one under ath0, disables and reanabled the card back and it
> has been working ever since.  That was done over three months ago for
> the first time.  I have been installing different packages and scripts
> and other components have failed, but not this one so far.
>
> I never even thought about even saving the manual, but I will oepn the
> box and check the model when I get a chance.
>
> On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 20:54 -0600, Robert wrote:
> > Graham wrote:
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> > > If this isn't the right forum for my query, please accept my apology,
> > > and perhaps somebody could refer me to the correct list?
> > >
> > > I need to move my PC into another room in order to use it with my
> > > university studies. My PC has only a limited number of card slots - and
> > > they are all filled - - so I thought I'd try to find a usb network
> > > adapter to use with Kubuntu Edgy (currently running KDE 3.5.6) and my
> > > D-Link wireless router.
> > >
> > > A friend of mine brought his WinXP laptop around and it worked fine
> > > with his adapter, the TP-LINK TL-WN321G.  Since the box said it was
> > > compatible with Linux, I, too, went and bought one, and found that the
> > > set up instructions were only for Windows and the website detailing the
> > > functionality only mentions that it runs under Windows.  There is a
> > > support email address (in China), but my enquiries have met without
> > > response.
> > >
> > > First of all, can anybody help me with setting up the usb adapter to
> > > work with Kubuntu Edgy?
> > >
> > > Secondly, can anyone suggest a suitable alternative wireless usb
> > > adapter to work with Kubuntu?  Alternatively, can you suggest any other
> > > way of getting wireless connectivity without a wireless card?
> > >
Hate to jump in late like this, but when installing (fresh install) fiesty on 
my home computers I noticed that the liveCD brought up the knetwork and all 
was fine, using belkin 802.11g usb wireless adapters, but when booting into 
the real installed system the knetwork does not work. I can use system 
settings and get wlan0 to work ok, but apparently knetwork manager does not 
do wlan0?

Mike