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But, what about the actual WMP54GS drivers? You can pull them off the CD that came with the NIC, or you can download them.

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$ dpkg -i ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.10_1.1-1_b Install the Linksys WMP54GS driverДЄt this point, you now have NdisWrapper installed. So, here are the steps to download, build, and install NdisWrapper for Debian systems: Note: I struggled with the Debian ndiswrapper-source and ndiswrapper-utils version 1.0rc2 which installed but did NOT work - I couldnвЂ™t set the SSID using iwconfig at all. You can download the source tarball ( ndiswrapper-1.1.tar.gz) or get the Debian package ( ndiswrapper-source_1.1-1_b).

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The trick is to use NdisWrapper, a package which loads the WinXP drivers (!) under Linux - for better or worse, this apparently works. ThereвЂ™s no specific driver for the WMP54GS for Linux. This is what my machine reports:Д 000:01:0b.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)Д 000:01:0b.0 0280: 14e4:4320 (rev 03) Install NdisWrapper

I hope this mini-HOWTO proves useful to you if you are in the process of installing a WMP54GS PCI NIC too leave a comment if it did (or didnвЂ™t - maybe I can help)! Identify what youвЂ™ve gotДЇirst, identify what youвЂ™ve actually got. I run Debian, but these instructions should help get you pointed in the right direction for the most part. Since I know that wireless NICs arenвЂ™t well supported under Linux for various reasons, I decided to log all I had to do to get this particular NIC working on my machine. This is important depending on where in the house I need to position the antenna to get the best signal and coverage. Not only that, but most USB NICs have dinky attached antennas, and the PCI card has a screw-on antenna that can be replaced with larger and presumably better antennas. I decided to go the PCI card route because I wanted to get 802.11g, but my host only has USB 1.1 and I didnвЂ™t want to spend the money on a USB 2.0 PCI card in addition to a new USB wireless NIC. Today, I ran out to CompUSA (instant gratification!) and bought myself a Linksys WMP54GS, which you can get at for around $59.99. So, I decided it was time to buy a slightly better supported wireless NIC and stop fussing with this piece of junk. Watching the latest at76c503 driver try to download the firmware resulted in an 'unexpected opcode 146' error. I built the new driver, installed it, and everything worked fine - until the powerloss.

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However, when upgrading to 2.6.x, I discovered this meant also needing to upgrade to a more recent version of the at76c503 driver, which was fine since my NIC already had the 0.90.2-140 firmware downloaded to it. I discovered that my particular WUSB11-V26 only worked with the 0.90.2-140 revision of the firmware (newer firmwares wouldnвЂ™t turn the radio on) - once I learned this, everything was fine, IвЂ™d just hack the driver source to use the older firmware and everything was fine.

It worked pretty well, but then I upgraded to a 2.6.x kernel and while it continued to work for a short time, when we suffered a prolonged power outage, the NIC refused to work when power came back. For a long time (especially with the 2.4.x kernels), IвЂ™d been using a Linksys WUSB11-V26 with the Atmel RFMD 503 as the wireless NIC for my home network, using the at76c503 driver.