[SWLUG] Wireless USB Dongle Help

[Pete Prior]

First step would be to run lsusb when its plugged in and see what it
identifies itself as. 
Output from running dmesg would also be helpful.

Pete

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:43:41 +0100, Jon Reynolds
<maillist at jcrdevelopments.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have acquired an Edimax USB Wireless dongle, hoping it would just
> plug-n-play with Ubuntu but it hasn't, or at least not on the laptop I
> am trying to install it on, an old Dell Latitude.
> 
> Here's the dongle:
> http://www.edimax.co.uk/en/produce_detail.php?pd_id=3&pl1_id=1&pl2_id=44
> 
> The laptop seems to recognise the hardware as far as I can tell but it
> certainly isn't working as it should; i.e. no wireless networks detected
> in Network Manager.
> 
> I think the laptop is just USB1.0 so whether that prevents it from
> working I don't know. 
> 
> But I just need some pointers to the obvious steps to take to try and
> check whats working and whats not. It came with some linux drivers, but
> I just get errors when trying to compile them that I don't understand.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Jon Reynolds
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