It took me a while but finaly managed to get my wlan card working in linux.

So this is my first official wireless post !!

If anybody ever has any troubles with getting an US Robotics 5416 wireless card working, feel free to send me an e-mail.

Congratz

Any ideas how to keep Netgear WG311v2 up and running? I can get the card to work, but not for long.

Depends, does that card uses a Texas Instruments acx100 or 111 chipset ?

Congratulations again (officialy)

Did you set up a router as well?

Yeah a router.

George wrote:Depends, does that card uses a Texas Instruments acx100 or 111 chipset ?

ACX111 chipset. Getting it working isn't the problem - using the acx100 module from acx100.sourceforge.net - WEP works, connection is established without a problem. But after a while, it keep cutting out and giving me indecipherable error messages. Might try ndiswrapper next weekend.

djpearman wrote:

George wrote:Depends, does that card uses a Texas Instruments acx100 or 111 chipset ?

ACX111 chipset. Getting it working isn't the problem - using the acx100 module from acx100.sourceforge.net - WEP works, connection is established without a problem. But after a while, it keep cutting out and giving me indecipherable error messages. Might try ndiswrapper next weekend.

You have to find the right firmware. I also used the very latest snapshot of the acx driver (from 3 november). Which seems to work fine for my card.

First I tried a snapshot from 14 september which according to some other guy made his card work for hours on end (anything earlier used to lock up his box after a few minutes, the same thing happened to me). That worked but pretty slow and after a while there wasn't much life in the connection. Also got weird error messages in the system logs.

So you should try the really latest snapshot, and see how that goes. Seeing that the chipset is the same, it should work.

If only the manufactures would provide some decent info on how to talk with their cards, instead of being all hush hush about it. If they provide enough info and maybe a couple of free cards to some linux developers, they would get linux drivers for nearly nothing.

George wrote:

djpearman wrote:

George wrote:Depends, does that card uses a Texas Instruments acx100 or 111 chipset ?

ACX111 chipset. Getting it working isn't the problem - using the acx100 module from acx100.sourceforge.net - WEP works, connection is established without a problem. But after a while, it keep cutting out and giving me indecipherable error messages. Might try ndiswrapper next weekend.

You have to find the right firmware. I also used the very latest snapshot of the acx driver (from 3 november). Which seems to work fine for my card.

First I tried a snapshot from 14 september which according to some other guy made his card work for hours on end (anything earlier used to lock up his box after a few minutes, the same thing happened to me). That worked but pretty slow and after a while there wasn't much life in the connection. Also got weird error messages in the system logs.

So you should try the really latest snapshot, and see how that goes. Seeing that the chipset is the same, it should work.

If only the manufactures would provide some decent info on how to talk with their cards, instead of being all hush hush about it. If they provide enough info and maybe a couple of free cards to some linux developers, they would get linux drivers for nearly nothing.

I'll give that a go.