Stan Hoeppner wrote:
M. Milanuk put forth on 11/19/2009 4:46 PM:
Read this, and maybe give it a shot. This hack has been around since
2007. Target platform was Ubuntu but it may work on Debian as well
given Ubuntu's roots.
Hmmm... it took me a bit to run down the windows driver inf file (partly
because it takes this machine so blasted long to reboot. I'll have to
copy it over to a usb drive and then try the process from Debian. One
of the things that keeps throwing me for a loop is many of these
tutorials cite output from a command 'lusb', which does not appear to be
on my system, nor does it show up when using 'apt-cache search lusb'.
When I run modprobe with the -v flag, there are no errors when I went
through the process of adding the rt73usb module, and dmesg showed that
there was a device attached to the usb port.
As luck would have it, this machine is apparently too old to boot from
one of the newer Linux distro live cds to see if they could pick up the
wifi adapter - they lock up during boot into the GUI screen.
I've spent several days researching web page after web page and wading
through literally hundreds of forum posts. Frankly... this is rapidly
getting to be more work than I wanted to deal with to get a simple wifi
card working. The machine may finish out its days as an XP machine -
the hardware has its share of problems that make me feel its not worth
the effort.
Thanks,
Monte
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