Wireless usb Lan adapter Error

[Turishi Malhotra]

Hi,
I am installing Wireless Usb Lan Adapter on linux 8.0.It is giving an error:--
Kernel:usb.c : usb device 2 (vend/prod 0x1212fd/0x1001) is claimed by any active driver.Can any one give me the solution on this
thanks
turishi

[Steven E. Protter]

Couple of things:

Details: state the manufacturer and model of the adapter. By Linux 8 do you mean Red Hat 8? Its wireless support was virtually nonexistant.

If there are other USB devices there may be a conflict. Try unplugging the other device.

I recommend Fedora Core 3. It has excellent wireless support.

SEP

[Chris Xu]

Did your error have a NOT in front claimed?

Kernel:usb.c : usb device 2 (vend/prod 0x1212fd/0x1001) is NOT claimed by any active driver

If so, it meant the usb driver was not found in the kernel. To prove that, type "lsmod | grep usb", and you would not get anything. You need to install a usb storage driver and config it into /etc/modules.conf for the system to load into the kernel. Hope this is helpful.

Chris

[Turishi Malhotra]

Hi,

Yes there not in front of Claimed.
But how to configure it as I am not able to do it.So plz help me out.
thanks
Rishi

[Matthew Couper]

"Wireless Usb Lan Adapter" doesn't help much either. There are dozens for these and most are very different. It all depends really on what the wireless chip is, broadcom is infamous for making non-Linux compatible wireless devices and Linksys _use_ to be good to Linux but with 802.11g it's all closed leaving Linux programmers guessing how they work.

I'll also agree with Protter, if it is Red Hat 8 that you are using try Fedora Core 3 for an easy to use, up to date Linux version

Also, try searching http://google.com/linux for the model of your wireless adapter, you will most likely find the answer there

[Chris Xu]

Here are the names of packages to install for Red Hat 8:
libusb-0.1.6-1
libusb-devel-0.1.6-1
usbutils-0.9-7
usbview-1.0-7
hotplug-2002_04_01-13:3
wireless-tools-25-1
You may need other packages for dependency based on what your system have already installed.

However, I would agree with Protter and Ellis on getting the latest release if you can. Besides Fedora 3, you can upgrade to Red Hat 9 (using up2date command) or to do a refresh installation of AS 3. Good luck.