How to get a Linksys WUSB54g v1 NIC to work on a SuSE 10 machine.

This is a quick and dirty, and unfortunately not free.

I have tried to get things to work with ndiswrapper but I am enough of a newbie that I was not able to get it to recognize the wlan0.

The first thing that I did was go to http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/.

They have a program that allows Linux to use the native Windows drivers. It costs 19.95 for a license, but to me, it's cheaper than going out and trying to find a good card that works under both Windows and Linux. The license is tied to the MAC address of the card, so if your one to try different Linux distributions every now and then, this follows you just fine.

I installed the appropriate RPM for my distribution. In the instructions, it tells you to double check using uname -r at the command prompt.

All of the configuration was pretty much web based. After the installation the program tells you where to point your browser, and how to upload the appropriate drivers.

The only thing that was a little out of the ordinary was that I had to go to the console, and enter in the appropriate details of my network.

I.E

as root,

# iwconfig wlan0 <essid> key <hex key> restricted

The <essid> is the SSID for the network, and the <hex key> is the encryption key for the network.

At this point you should have an operational wireless connection.