[nzlug] WiFi USB Adaptor that works under Ubuntu & Red Hat

[Peter Butler]

> I just rebuilt the r80 driver, which I happen to have source for
> already downloaded, did "sudo make install", plugged the dongle in,
> and then "dhclient wlan0".
Thanks for the details.  I've just tried the same thing here with r80 
and your config files (changed to suit my network).  No joy 
unfortunately.  dhclient times out, there is no IP address associated 
with the interface and trying to bring the card up using ifconfig causes 
the "link is not ready" message to be printed to dmesg.  I tried this 
with WPA enabled.
> Linux gall 2.6.17-10-generic #2 SMP Fri Oct 13 15:34:39 UTC 2006
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
I guess that could be my problem, I'm running:
Linux laptop 2.6.15-27-386 #1 PREEMPT Sat Sep 16 01:51:59 UTC 2006 i686 
GNU/Linux

Another strange thing: I tried the latest ndiswrapper stable build with 
the latest windows drivers from the Atheros site (they've taken over the 
previous vendor).  I tried this without WPA and got exactly the same 
"link is not ready" message in dmesg.

I've read on several forums that people have had problems with this card 
in Ubuntu using both the open-source driver and ndiswrapper.  One person 
apparently managed to get ndiswrapper working with a windows driver 
downloaded from some unspecified location (dontcha hate those posts that 
say "it works!" but don't say how).

Thanks for your help anyway.

Cheers

Peter