I purchased this damn near free after rebate Syntax USB400 wlan usb adapter which surprisingly works well in Windows, but now I'm attempting to get it to work under Linux. At first I thought this wasn't possible until I came across this link http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10676520~mode=flat, which made me pursue getting this to work. I checked out linux-wlan's website and I have the latest drivers which is wlan-ng 0.2.1pre21driver. I'm a lil embarassed because now I'm stuck at the damn prerequisites, which are: -------------------- Prerequisites: To build linux-wlan-ng you will need: - Configured kernel source code for the kernel you are running. Ideally, this will be the resulting tree after building your own kernel. Configured means that you have at least run 'make config', 'make menuconfig', or 'make xconfig'. If you are trying to build linux-wlan-ng for a previously existing kernel binary (one you did not build yourself), look for help on the mailing lists because it can be tricky. I always run against kernels I've built myself, so I'm not much help in this area. - The good David Leffler identified that if you are having difficulty with *_netlink_* symbols, you may have a problem with 'make clean' in the kernel tree. Do a 'make mrproper' followed by 'make config' and the rest of the kernel build process. 'make mrproper' does a more thorough cleaning of the kernel tree. For more info, look for David's comments in the linux-wlan-user mailing list. - If you are building a driver for a PCMCIA card, you will also need the configured PCMCIA source code for the pcmcia_cs subsystem you are currently running. -------------------- I'm unfamiliar with configuring Kernels so I thought I'd ask before I even attempted to install these drivers. Any advice on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Techzaport OUT!!!

You don't need to compile linux, you only need configured linux sources. you can download linux from http://www.kernel.org to configure just do a "make menuconfig", any config will do you can just save the default config if you want to. Then you can follow the steps to install linux-wlan-ng, it will ask for the linux sources dir, you can put the correct path for them. I use a netgear USB wlan dongle, its based on the prism2 chipset and works very well with wlan-ng. There are 10 kinds of people, those who count in binary and those who don't.

I figured out how to get this to work on my own yesterday. I found some rpm's for RH9 at http://prism2.unixguru.raleigh.nc.us/. All I had to do is update my Kernel with Redhat's up2date program, but that program kept failing. I had to reconfigure my SSL Cert and I got my new Kernel 2.4.20-31.9. I followed a mixture of both directions from that site and www.linux-wlan.org and got my cheap $4 USB wlan to work. The funniest thing is this thing seems to work even faster in Linux than in Windows with the manufacturer's drivers. I am having one annoying issue. Everytime I start my computer with the USB wlan adapter I get some weird Kernel error. If I start without the adapter and run everything manually I'm all set. All I have to do is run about 4 commands to get the card working which I've put in a lil script file because I was getting tired of type them in. This is not a biggie, but if someone might have a solution please let me know. Thanks for your assistance. Techzaport OUT!!!