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I can not for the life of me get my Linksys WUSB54GSC to work with Linux. Forcing me to stay with Windows. Anyway, is there a wireless usb that you can reccommend that works out of box with Mandriva or just about any other Linux OS?

I can't recommend one myself, but there's a big thread over in the Ubunut forums, or at least there use to be, about which wifi cards do and do not work out of the box in Linux.

Are you getting stuck with using ndiswrapper?

my hawking hwu54g USB adapter has given good service,
using linux native zd1211rw driver. Info from hawking,
also from FCC including a good manual, some internal
photos and other unusual info--

https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/rep ... 4WUG2670't

as for the WUSB54GSC, it seems one version uses Ralink
chipset, the other Broadcom--have you looked on linksys'
website to determine which you have? If Ralink you're in luck,
they have excellent native linux support.

I have the broadcom one.

I had problems with a mini PCI broadcom wireless card so I bought an Intel (IBM) one.

For Broadcom, I think you need to enable firmware for it.

Try: apt-get install b43-fwcutter

Maybe one doesn't have to do that anymore but that is what you had to do before.

Also, go to a console terminal and type: lsusb

That will give you the hardware specs and info for your usb adapter. If you still have trouble, you can google the detailed info for the hardware (chipset). Add 'linux' or 'debian' in the google space and search for the entire set of terms. That's what I'd do.

Hi i-snipez,

I don't know what Linux build you are using but have you tried Mandriva One? If not give it a go it has incredibly good networking support. I have a customer who insists on me wiping Windows & installing it on all X41 tablets that I refurb for him. It handles networking both wired & wireless out of the box!!

Link: http://www2.mandriva.com/linux/one/

It comes as a live CD so you don't have to wipe everything out before you try it, if you like it you can install from the live CD environment.

ideal-pc wrote:Hi i-snipez,

I don't know what Linux build you are using but have you tried Mandriva One? If not give it a go it has incredibly good networking support. I have a customer who insists on me wiping Windows & installing it on all X41 tablets that I refurb for him. It handles networking both wired & wireless out of the box!!

Link: http://www2.mandriva.com/linux/one/

It comes as a live CD so you don't have to wipe everything out before you try it, if you like it you can install from the live CD environment.

Mandriva is actually my distro of choice.

The Linux Wireless Wiki has a list of devices that work with Linux, along with what driver/module to use, what features are supported, etc.