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Wireless Linksys WMP54GS ver 1.1 - configuration

Asked by Pablo

Dear all,
I have a Linksys Wireless-G 2.4 card PCI - model (WMP54GS) ver 1.1 that I need to configure in my desktop. I am running Ubuntu 11.10.
For what I read this card is being considered as "workable card" http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ndiswrapper/index.php?title=Linksys_WPC54GS

I tried Ndiswrapper, and the screen "Currently Installed Windows Drivers" it shows wmp54gs Hardware Present: yes

When I go to configure Network I am no able to introduce information on the fields.

In System Setting/Network/Wireless it shows the wireless address (MAC) with the a message of Firmware Missing.

When I run this command I got this message showing that the driver is installed.

pablo@Desktop:~$ ndiswrapper -l
wmp54gs : driver installed
 device (14E4:4318) present (alternate driver: ssb)

I run ifconfig -a

pablo@Desktop:~$ ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:21:14:df:57
          inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::219:21ff:fe14:df57/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:7647 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:5756 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:4643485 (4.6 MB) TX bytes:910242 (910.2 KB)
          Interrupt:43 Base address:0xc000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
          RX packets:915 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:915 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:264500 (264.5 KB) TX bytes:264500 (264.5 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:f8:29:b5:c5
          BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

Looks like is there but cannot get it configured.

I appreciate your help.

Regards
Pablo

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Pablo (par-rodriguez) said : 		#1

After looking to several solutions provided on the web I was able to find one that helped me to easily solve the problem explained in my previous post.

I found the information here: http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Supported_devices

Since my desktop runs Ubuntu after reading the document I went to Ubuntu installation process and run the following commando on terminal

 sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

After installing the package the wireless network presence was immediately discovered and I end up configuring everything by the graphical interface.

Works perfectly.
Pablo