Wireless network adapter on CentOS 6, linksys wusb54gc ver3 wireless-g

[pingpong]

I have a problem installing the wireless network USB adapter on CentOS 6 on my home computer. There is no driver for Linux, but Windows.

Is there other ways to install the adapter?

Thank you in advance!!

[AlanBartlett]

Sight of the output produced by executing the following command line [i]may[/i] assist someone in helping you --

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[b]lsusb[/b]
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[pingpong]

Hi,

Thank you for your advice. I tried that, it seems it can recognise my USB network adapter.

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# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1737:0077 [color=000066]Linksys WUSB54GC v3 802.11g Adapter [Ralink RT2070L][/color]
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 045e:0750 Microsoft Corp. Wired Keyboard 600
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 045e:0039 Microsoft Corp. IntelliMouse Optical
Bus 001 Device 012: ID 1b1c:1ab1 Corsair
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I am wondering what I should do to install it.

Thanks in advance!

[AlanBartlett]

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Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1737:0077 [color=0000FF]Linksys WUSB54GC v3 802.11g Adapter [Ralink RT2070L][/color]
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Thank you for providing that information. The really important part of that line is the [i]Vendor:Device ID Pairing[/i], [color=FF0000]1737:0077[/color], which precisely defines the required driver.

The first thing to do is to check to see if there is a module available in the distributed kernel --

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[ajb@Duo2 ~]$ grep 1737 /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep 0077
/lib/modules/3.5.4-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64/modules.alias:alias usb:v1737p0077d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip* rt2800usb
[ajb@Duo2 ~]$
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Unfortunately there is no mention of a distribution kernel, above.

So let us look elsewhere to see if there is an installable kmod package which will provide the driver. We go to the [url=http://elrepo.org/tiki/DeviceIDs]Device IDs[/url] page at the [url=http://elrepo.org]ELRepo Project[/url]'s site and check for [b]1737:0077[/b]. Unfortunately, once again, there is no mention of that [i]Vendor:Device ID Pairing[/i] on the page.

So it does look as if you will need to read-up about the [url=http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml]kernel-ml[/url] package that is also available from the [url=http://elrepo.org]ELRepo Project[/url] and consider installing that kernel to obtain support for your USB wireless adaptor.

[pingpong]

[quote]
consider installing that kernel to obtain support for your USB wireless adaptor.[/quote]

Hi,

Thank you very much for your advice and help.

I am a Linux newbie.

You said in previous post:

consider installing that kernel to obtain support for your USB wireless adaptor.


How difficult is it to do that? I never did that before.


I found this to run windows driver on linux?

Using Windows drivers - ndiswrapper on the link below

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless

On the link, it mentions:

, set up the ELRepo repository


Does it need a network connection, which I only have on Windows?



Thank you in advance!

[toracat]

[quote]
So it does look as if you will need to read-up about the [url=http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml]kernel-ml[/url] package that is also available from the [url=http://elrepo.org]ELRepo Project[/url] and consider installing that kernel to obtain support for your USB wireless adaptor.[/quote]

Let me expand on Alan's statement for you. :-)

He is suggesting that you try installing [b]kernel-ml[/b] which is the latest version available from kernel.org that was rebuilt to run on Enterprise Linux including CentOS.

First, you set up the ELRepo repository by running (as root):

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rpm --import http://elrepo.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org
rpm -Uvh http://elrepo.org/elrepo-release-6-4.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm
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Then you install kernel-ml by running (as root):

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yum --enablerepo=elrepo-kernel install kernel-ml
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Reboot the machine. When you get the grub menu, select the newly installed kernel. It must be at the top of the list and has [b]elrepo[/b] in the name. Boot it and see if your USB wireless now works.

[pingpong]

[quote]
toracat wrote:


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rpm --import http://elrepo.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org
rpm -Uvh http://elrepo.org/elrepo-release-6-4.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm
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Then you install kernel-ml by running (as root):

[code]
yum --enablerepo=elrepo-kernel install kernel-ml
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[/quote]

Hi,

Thank you for your advice.

Could I double check one point:

Because the wireless network adapter is the only device in CentOS, which is not working. And the commands you showed me require internet connection. I guess I need to download those two files, store in a USB flash drive, and then run those two command to install it.

Thanks again.

[toracat]

[quote]
pingpong wrote:

Because the wireless network adapter is the only device in CentOS, which is not working. And the commands you showed me require internet connection. I guess I need to download those two files, store in a USB flash drive, and then run those two command to install it.
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Indeed. You need to do it that way.

Download this file:

http://elrepo.org/elrepo-release-6-4.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm

Locate a mirror site near you by checking the [url=http://elrepo.org/tiki/Download]Download[/url] page. Then download the kernel-ml file.

kernel-ml-3.5.4-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm (if your system is 64-bit)

kernel-ml-3.5.4-1.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm (if your system is 32-bit)

Once transferred to your CentOS box, installed them by a 'rpm -ivh ' command.