Wusb300n Linksys Usb N Wifi

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Ok I followed andrew18 ndiswrapper howto, and it did and didn't work in a way. I followed the driver instructions, that worked. When my usb wifi was plugged in i could "ndiswrapper -l" in konsole and get
House-linux:/home/art # ndiswrapper -l
netmw245 : driver installed
device (13B1:0029) present

When the usb wasn't plugged in I would get something else like netmw245 installed. Sorry don't exactly recall. So this told me the driver and the device were bound, as they should be.

I then followed the instructions on Yast configuration. The NDISGTK network configure didn't work for me, so I just opened up Yast on my own. This is where my install differs than the instructions. Instruction number 12 informs the user to select the appropriate box usb or pcmcia. I went back and forth for over an hour trying just about every option in the network card/network settings menu. From messing w/my authentication modes to messing w/the operating mode and the network setup method in the global option tab.

What worked for me.
Instruction #12. I chose neither usb or pcmcia. I typed ndiswrapper under module, hit next. Then selected my authentication settings and typed in my ssid and so fourth.

Also in Network card setup under general tab, I have the firewall set to external zone. One last odd thing is that under Yast,network card, network devices, the overview shows "no connection" for wireless device. The whole time messing w/my connection I was watching the absence of the link light on wifi adapter. Luckily, it's on my desk. I knew i started to get close when the settings were being finalized/finished and the link light would flash. When I was totally wrong the link light would do nothing/unlit.

Hope this helps someone. Had to rush typing this as the wife has already given me a hard time over the amount of time spent messing w/the wifi. My wireless N is about as fast as my eth. connection.

Well done on getting it working and for posting your solution

Andy

I too was having an issue with getting the WUSB-300N linksys router operating correctly on my Suse 10.0 box.

My solutions was this:

1. Install drivers from disk using the ndiswrapper program

2. check for installed driver - ndiswrapper -l

3. load module - modprobe ndiswrapper

Issues I had after the adapter was up and running:

problem 1. It was not connecting to my AP.

solution 1. I had to turn off my encryption on my wireless router and enable MAC address filtering.


problem 2. The adapter was not grabbing an IP address automagically.

solution 2. As root I had to type the command: dhcpcd <network name> , in my case, it was wlan0


problem 3. Adapter not starting up at boot time automagically.

solution 3. I had to modify my boot.local file with the following line: modprobe ndiswrapper
The boot.local file was located at: /etc/init.d/ on my suse 10.0 box
Typing the suggested modprobe ndiswrapper command alone during setup will not load the module at boot!


problem 4. No wlan0 config warnings. I did not use Yast to setup a wireless config for the wlan0, as when I did this it would cause the adapter to freeze my computer or symply not work at all. I had to manually create my wlan0 config file. My wireless config file is located in /etc/sysconfig/network/ . Created a file named ifcfg-wlan0 .


Once all problems were solved, My wireless usb adapter loads at boot, is assigned an IP, uses the correct AP (access point) i.e. my wireless router, and uses the correct wlan0 config file.

I hope this helps any others out there having similar issues with this product.


Results: Once running, my adapter runs very well. I have good - great signal strength. I have a 10m/bit cable connection but am only getting 6.5 - 7 m/bit via the wireless adapter. So some loss in speed there, but still sufficient and I dont have to run any cables thru my apartment.