Trying to make Cisco/Linksys WUSB600N wireless ethernet work with Lucid

[Karl Larsen]

On 06/03/2010 04:10 PM, sdavmor wrote:
> I inherited a Dell Dimension 4100 laptop. After adding ram to bring it
> to 1gb it works quite nicely with XP. But I'd like it to work with
> Ubuntu. So I partitioned the hard drive and installed Karmic Ubuntu
> Remix. So far so good (other than I want to get rid of the "remix"
> desktop). The 3com wired LAN works straight out of the box. But my
> Cisco/Linksys USB wireless LAN doesn't (it works with XP using the
> provided drivers CD). So I've upgraded to Lucid. But I still have no
> wireless joy.
>
> I looked at http://linuxwireless.org/. Apparently under the hood it's
> a Ralink rt2800usb, and is classified as not yet working. So my next
> move will be to try ndiswrapper. Has anyone had experience of making
> this approach work with Lucid? Even if not with this particular model
> USB ethernet. And if so, some practical tips would be appreciated.
> I'll be happy to run any commands here and provide any requested
> output to help move this along.
>    
     it is a:
AGP 2.0 video card (4X or 2X; see manufacturer's specifications for 
information about the card and any utilities and drivers included)
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     So Google yourself to verify your mini-Tower does have this video 
card. I think Ubuntu can use this very common video card.

73 Karl


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