Re: help with wifi usb adapters :)

Hi Andrea,

if your configuration tool shows that the card is recognized there are only a
few steps neccessary to get the wireless lan working.

I have never used Mandrake Linux, so I try to give you an idea how to get it
working with any distribution.

First of all try on the console `lsmod`, this should list the currently loaded
modules. If at at76c503_rfmd, at76c503 and at76_usbdfu are loaded then we can go
on to the next step.

Try to unplug the card and plug it in again and type `dmesg` at the console. The
last few lines should give you some information whether the loading of the
drivers and initializing the card was successful or not.

All the configuration can be done with the program `iwconfig`, just running this
program should give you a list of your current wireless lan configuration. For a
standard setup try `iwconfig wlan0 essid <yourSSID> mode managed` if you have
and access point or `iwconfig wlan0 essid <yourSSID> mode Ad-hoc` if you want to
setup peer-to-peer wlan.

Once this is done look if `iwconfig` shows you your current access point address
(anything but 00:00:00:00:00:00 means that you are connected).

With the command `ifconfig wlan0 up` you can enable the interface and try to get
an ip address over DHCP or use a static one with `ifconfig wlan0 up
<yourstaticaddress>`.

Try to ping other hosts on the network to see if it works so far. Now you have
to figure out how to tell Mandrake-Linux howto do these things automatically
with each start, so that you don't have to type them in everytime.

Greetings
Alexander Steppke


NK joep wrote:
> hi friends!
> 
> My name is Andrea and i'm from italy :) i'm a newbie of linux, and i'm
> tring to make work the &#8206;at76c503-rfmd with:
> 
> v_id:  069a
> p_id: 0321  (i think with Rev_0100 version)
> 
> i'm currently using: 2.6.8.1-12mdk
> 
> i've read http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/atmel_92.html but i dont
> know what to do!
> 
> in the kd3 hardware configuration tool i can see linux reconizes the
> wifi adapter so it puts its in the ethernet cards list... but it became
> without a valid NAME! °_° so i try to launch the configuration tool it
> tells me to load manually a driver and write a "netdev_name" and debug!
> 
> i've done a shot ( http://nkjoep.altervista.org/wifi_shot.png ) how you
> can see there isnt the name in the device list!! (it's in italian sorry :P)
> 
> so... what must i do?
> 
> thanx for attention!
> 
> -andrea