Trouble getting Linksys WUSB54GC v. 3 to work in Lenny
Hello,
I have an older Sony Vaio laptop setup to dual-boot between WinXP and
Debian Lenny 5.03 w/ LXDE. This laptop did not come with any wifi
buit-in, so I purchased a Linksys WUSB54GC adapter, and thus far I've
been having a devil of a time getting it to work in Linux. It works
fine in XP, fwiw.
I have internet connection via eth0 to my local network which works as
expected. I have updated and upgraded the system as appropriate, and
have been trying to work through the process shown in the Debian Wiki here:
http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/rt73#rt73usb.28next-generationdriver.29
but when I type 'iwconfig' as directed, I get only this:
vaio:~# iwconfig
l0 no wireless extensions
eth0 no wireless extensions
In other words, no wlan0. Just to be sure, I tried 'ifconfig wlan0 up'
as instructed...
vaio:~# ifconfig wlan0 up
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
I did some further digging, and found someone going through almost the
exact same gyrations a few months back, but no followup so I can't tell
if the backports actually worked for him:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/361042
Unfortunately I *tried* that, with no change (other than I now have
firmware-ralink 0.17 instead of 0.14 as normally ships with Lenny).
If anyone can help me out here or point me in the right direction I'd
greatly appreciate it!
TIA,
Monte
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