[SWLUG] Wireless USB Dongle Help

[Jon Reynolds]

Thanks Pete,

Will feedback those commands later when I get home.

I do remember trying lsusb and it certainly appeared there... couldn't
tell you about the driver though (from memory)

Cheers

Jon Reynolds

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 03:32:38PM +0100, Pete Prior wrote:
> 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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