[SOLVED] Spotty connection with WUSB54G

[xchecker]

On a new box running Edubuntu 8.04 I have a Linksys WUSB54G v4 adapter connecting wirelessly to a WRT54G v4 Router. At first it worked practically out of the box as the installed rt2500usb driver seemed to work fine with this hardware. But after a day or two we lost connection to the network, then it reappeared by itself but ran very slowly. Today it comes and goes, sometimes at good speed sometimes it can't find a server. My browser is Firefox 3.0.1.

Here's some info from the terminal:



crichmond@brichmond-desktop:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"linksys"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:14:BF:16:FC:66
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
Link Quality=72/100 Signal level=-44 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

crichmond@brichmond-desktop:~$ lshw -C Network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:12:17:72:e9:26
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes ip=192.168.1.101 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
crichmond@brichmond-desktop:~$ iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

wmaster0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan0 No scan results


Suggestions?

[xchecker]

Anyone, please?

[liquoredolce]

I'm having the same problem so I'm bumping this to the top :)

[beameup]

Not going to be much help, but AFAIK this adapter wasn't supported at all by any Linux distro in the past. I just used one when i was reinstalling XP / Ubuntu on my daughters PC and was surprised when Ubuntu 8.04 picked it up without any effort, I never used it extensively, just for a few days but never had any issues with it. I presume y'all have unplugged and replugged it already, let it refind it?

[xchecker]

Various threads and personal trial and error have led me to conclude the default rt2500usb driver in Ubuntu is not reliable with this adapter, so I installed ndiswrapper and the driver from Linksys.

So far it seems to be working fine now. Anyone using this adapter I recommend going this route even if the default driver seems to work OK at first.