Connecting Linksys WUSBv2.8 to internet

[eargasm]

Hello bbfuller and Iron_Mike,
I tried both of these with no results. I ran the "iwlist wlan0 scan" and received the following response:

wlan0 No scan results


I also disabled the encryption completely and the NM created another wireless network of the same name, but of course with no encryption. However, it did not connect either.

[bbfuller]

Hello eargasm

The only thing I can think of to try now is to boot the computer up from one of the Fedora live CD's and try to connect to your router with it's encryption turned off. That won't affect anything on your hard disk.

If that doesn't produce any results, and if we can't find a Windows driver that ndiswrapper will work with then I really don't know what else to suggest.

[eargasm]

Well no luck guys but thank you so much for your help!!! Since I recevied so much support from the community, I decided to go ahead and purchase another wireless usb adapter and now everything works like a charm!!! FYI I purchased a Belkin Wireless G Adapter for $30 at Wal-mart. Very much worth my investment. A special thanks to bbfuller!

[freshshelf]

I've entered a bug report for this problem - bug 557656 in Fedora Bugzilla https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557656. The Linksys WUSB v2.8 wireless adapter was working in Fedora11, but stopped in Fedora12.

There are actually 2 drivers that support this wireless adapter; at76_usb and at76c50x_usb. The later relies on the mac80211 module, which doesn't seem to work.

The solution to get it working is to blacklist the bad driver. This is accomplished by editting the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf as root. Add the following lines to the file and reboot:

# wireless drivers
blacklist at76c50x_usb