On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 1:05 AM, Sloan wrote:

Thanks for your response. I haven't tried that one - a glance at amazon.com shows that there are at least 2 models by this name - one model which looks like a small WAP, and a newer model which looks like a pen drive. Do you know which one your friend used?

Joe

By 'pen', do you mean the compact one? If so, no, that's not what my friend was using. That is a WUSB54GC. My friend is using the plain WUSB54G - the first one in the result with this search term in Amazon. Hope you can get it to work as well. Good luck. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Am Samstag, 29. März 2008 schrieb Joe Sloan:

Chee How Chua wrote:

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Have you tried the Linksys WUSB54G? I got a friend who said he plugged it in while installing 10.3 and it worked.

(kicks self) I did it again, bought a piece of hardware on the basis of an unverified report. Oh well, luckily it wasn't too expensive.

When I plug the WUSB54G into my 10.3 system, syslog shows the following:

usb 2-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 usb 2-3: new device found, idVendor=13b1, idProduct=000d usb 2-3: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 usb 2-3: Product: Wireless-G USB Network Adapter usb 2-3: Manufacturer: Cisco-Linksys usb 2-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

However, yast is unaware of it - it doesn't show up under network devices. At this point I've got to googling for hints, not the sort of plug and play experience I was hoping for.

According to http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_part.php?brandname=Linksys that should be a Ralink rt2x00 based adapter. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Markus Koßmann wrote:

Am Samstag, 29. März 2008 schrieb Joe Sloan:

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When I plug the WUSB54G into my 10.3 system, syslog shows the following:

usb 2-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 usb 2-3: new device found, idVendor=13b1, idProduct=000d usb 2-3: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 usb 2-3: Product: Wireless-G USB Network Adapter usb 2-3: Manufacturer: Cisco-Linksys usb 2-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

However, yast is unaware of it - it doesn't show up under network devices. At this point I've got to googling for hints, not the sort of plug and play experience I was hoping for.

According to http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_part.php?brandname=Linksys that should be a Ralink rt2x00 based adapter.

Just to report back to the list, getting this thing working was a matter of going into yast, searching for rt2x00, and installing the appropriate kernel driver arising from from the search results, which in my case was rt2x00-kmp-default. As soon as I did a "modprobe rt2500usb", I got a popup asking if I wanted to configure the newly recognized network card. The rest was routine, so all in all I'm reasonably pleased that I can use a usb ethernet adapter, which was reasonably priced, without too much trouble. To recap, it was a 3 step process: 1. install the driver package 2. modprobe the driver 3. configure the device, and begin using it Note that there was no reboot involved, lest some of you assume that sort of thing should involve a reboot or something of the sort. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org