[Gllug] joining a wireless LAN

[john gennard]

On 13 Sep 2004, Ian Norton wrote:- 

[snip]


 >Hiya,

>This i guess then is a driver issue, chances are, as your device is USB,
>is that it is an ATMEL at76c803 (or somthing,) device, there is a driver
>for these devices here :-

>http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/

>if you look at the last lines of 'dmesg' or use usbview you should be
>able to find the manfid and device id of the device, 

>if you install the usb tools, then using lsusb will show you something
>like this)

 >bredroll at orion:~$ lsusb
 >Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
 >Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04dd:8004 Sharp Corp. Zaurus SL-5000D/SL-5500 PDA
 >Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
 >Bus 001 Device 002: ID 045e:001c Microsoft Corp.

>The two 4 char numbers in the middle are the device/manufaturer ID, here
>you can see my Zaurus PDA as 04dd (sharp): 8004 (zaurus collie), and my
>keyboard as 045e(microshaft): 001c(usb hub).

>using these numbers you should be able to find a driver for your device.

>Ian


>http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/usbtable.html

>This table should let you know if your vendor/device combination are
>supported,

>Ian

Many thanks, Ian.

I had found the two urls you give, and there seems to a driver in
the latest kernels that should work. So far I haven't proved this
as I decided to compile 2.6.8 in Sid and build the driver in. I
always build kernels 'the debian way', but I was unaware the
kernel-package had been changed significantly, so I'm temporarily
delayed.

Your response will be very helpful; I am most grateful for this.

John.  


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