Recommend a USB Wireless Adapter for Ubuntu 9.x

chopperbyrne

Can anyone recommend any USB wireless adapters that are plug and play with Ubuntu?

Looks like the built-in adapter on my girlfriends laptop has had a hardware failure and she needs a quick and easy solution.

Mathiasb

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Can anyone recommend any USB wireless adapters that are plug and play with Ubuntu?

Looks like the built-in adapter on my girlfriends laptop has had a hardware failure and she needs a quick and easy solution.

Upgrade to 10.04 and the chance of the future usb wlan adapter to work increases

I suppose any Broadcom-based will work? (Dell, among others)

chopperbyrne

Mathiasb wrote: »

Upgrade to 10.04 and the chance of the future usb wlan adapter to work increases

I suppose any Broadcom-based will work? (Dell, among others)

The built-in adapter was Broadcom and it was a nightmare to get working properly.

Mathiasb

chopperbyrne wrote: »

The built-in adapter was Broadcom and it was a nightmare to get working properly.

If it's not supported OOTB it will most likely work with ndiswrapper, and that's just a matter of installing a package, downloading Windows drivers and pointing to an inf file. But sure, broadcom sucks, indeed. Intel make good NICs, but I dunno about USB ones.

Naikon

chopperbyrne wrote: »

The built-in adapter was Broadcom and it was a nightmare to get working properly.

Broadcom chipsets seem to have very ropey support under Linux. Avoid at all costs. Very poort support.

yoshytoshy

I'm brand new to ubuntu ,but my wifi stick worked straight away.

Link

It was the cheapest stick available on Komplett ,when I bought it.

rfrederick

I use a Cicso/Linksys WUSB100 v2 adapter for both my physical Ubuntu (10.04) boxes and my VirtualBox VMs that need wireless connectivity. I don't know about 9.x, but the drivers are included in the kernel modules shipped in 10.04.

The big caveat is that the adapter won't work out of the box due to there not being any udev rules in the shipped distro for firing up the drivers upon detection of the dongle. However I do have some udev rules written that I can provide if needed.

BopNiblets

Reminds me, I have an unopened Netgear 802.11g (WG111 model) USB if interested OP?

Stuxnet

I have to linksys wusb600 on my desktop, had to install the driver manually. But works perfect, was cheap aswell,

Can post the instructions if u get it

TheDoc

I use linksys wusb300n, absolute nightmare to setup

Trying to get it working with my server, 5 hours today, no joy what so ever.

all reminds me of when i moved my laptop to linux last year.

Lots of effort, headache and stress for a very underwhelming experience after.

Anyone think they can help? found resources online that outline ndiswrapper but none of it worked.

Stuxnet

TheDoc wrote: »

I use linksys wusb300n, absolute nightmare to setup

Trying to get it working with my server, 5 hours today, no joy what so ever.

all reminds me of when i moved my laptop to linux last year.

Lots of effort, headache and stress for a very underwhelming experience after.

Anyone think they can help? found resources online that outline ndiswrapper but none of it worked.

this works for me, slightly higher model wusb then yours but should work,

download the open driver from railink
extract it to your home folder
go to /home/USER/2010_0709_RT3572_Linux_STA_v2.4.0.1/os/linux/config.mk

edit:

# Support Wpa_Supplicant
HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=n

# Support Native WpaSupplicant for Network Maganger
HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=n

giving y values instead, save & close

go to /home/USER/2010_0709_RT3572_Linux_STA_v2.4.0.1/common/rtusb_dev_id.c

scroll down a bit till you see last entry {USB_DEVICE(0x0930,0x0A07)}, /* TOSHIBA */

insert

{USB_DEVICE(0x1737,0x0071)}

after it, and before #endif save and close

open a terminal:

cd 2010_0709_RT3572_Linux_STA_v2.4.0.1

sudo make

sudo make install

may return an error, dont worry

then i had to

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

add these 3 lines to bottom save and reboot

blacklist rt2800usb
blacklist rt2x00usb
blacklist rt2x00lib

hope this works for you

Mathiasb

You only need sudo for "make install".

Make sure the USB device ID is correct as well