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

[sdavmor]

On 06/03/2010 04:05 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 06/03/2010 03:10 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.
>
> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/rt2800usb/devices
> Linksys  	WUSB600N-EU  	0x1737  	0x0071
> is that the device?
> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/rt2800usb
>
> 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.
>
> I'd first try the suggestions in my other post. ndiswrapper can (IMO)
> sometimes create more problems than it is intended to resolve.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ndiswrapper
>
> However if you still want to give it a spin:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper

I'll try the suggestions aimed towards resolving use of the rt2800usb
native first.  Thanks.
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