Device 003: ID 0cde:0008 Z-Com Sitecom Wireless Network Adapter 100G+ WL-125, listed under lsusb in the terminal, is a USB wireless adapter I received in the mail this evening for my new dual-core super destructive doomsday machine computer I recently bought and installed Ubuntu on. Not much use to my master plan when it's hard-wired, though, since I plan to move it around occasionally and don't have the means or permission to move an ethernet cord to it.
So, I plug it in- no option to enable wireless, nothing. No proprietary hardware drivers offered.
So, I snoop around, and someone says they've loaded it with ndiswrapper and blacklisted the alternate driver, p54usb. So, I proceed to install ndiswrapper and load the inf file from the CD that came with my adapter. Only problem is, I'm on 64-bit, and ndiswrapper needs a 64-bit version of the driver to work, not the one on the CD. So I load the one in the Vista folder just in case it's 64-bit, since most computers shipping with Vista were. However, I don't believe this is the case, since it didn't work.
Of course, I updated initramfs with "sudo update-initramfs -k all -u" after blacklisting. No result.
So, I took p54usb off the blacklist, updated initramfs again, and I've been looking for how p54usb can support my adapter. However, I've come up short. I'd really like to get this working, since the shipping took forever, and I guess I was foolish to think just any adapter would work since all I'd tried before brought up wireless connections as soon as I plugged them in.
If anyone knows of a 64-bit driver for ndiswrapper that would work in this situation, or how to get p54usb working for this specific device, I would be extremely grateful. If this is not possible, I'm just going to buy a different one, since there's no way up giving up 64-bit just for WIRELESS.
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