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For those interested to know if Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop 1000 works on Linux... Yes, it's works.


$ dmesg
usb 5-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 usb 5-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice input: Microsoft Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop 2.10 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb5/5-1/5-1:1.0/input/input12 input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.11 Keyboard [Microsoft Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop 2.10] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1 input: Microsoft Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop 2.10 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb5/5-1/5-1:1.1/input/input13 input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop 2.10] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1 usb 5-1: New USB device found, idVendor=045e, idProduct=009d usb 5-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 usb 5-1: Product: Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop 2.10 usb 5-1: Manufacturer: Microsoft

Get Wireless working in Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn
Author: Abhinav
Source: http://i-eat-noobs.blogspot.com/2007/08/get-wireless-working-in-ubuntu-704.html

Great article about BCM43XX wireless card, I recommend to read it, if you have this card.

Non-working wireless internet is a common problem which can be easily resolved. All you need is
1 ) Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn installed ( how obvious )
2 ) Internet access - can be on another computer if not the one on which you have Ubuntu.

So lets get working!

First download the following packages
ndiswrapper-common
ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
ndisgtk

Now transfer these files to the system with Ubuntu installed - use a USB Flash Drive if you have to. Just get the files there.

Place them in the same folder and run the following commands in the terminal ( have the folder opened in it ). Change the * to the right text and run in the same order given below.

sudo dpkg -i ndiswrapper-common_*.deb
sudo dpkg -i ndiswrapper-utils-1.9_*.deb
sudo dpkg -i --force-depends ndisgtk_*.deb

When installing ndiswrapper-utils-1.9, it will ask for the Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn Install CD ( if you haven't played with the repositories ) If it doesn't ask for it, most probably you have been playing with the repositories and it will use the internet instead of the CD.
Once installed, you have to blacklist the open source bcm43xx that comes with Ubuntu. The file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist contains the blacklisting information. Just open it in gedit with root rights.

gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

And add to it...

blacklist bcm43xx

Now do a lspci in the terminal and find the name of your wireless card there. If you are using a USB wireless card, do a lsusb instead. Note it down because you will need it later. Like for me it says

03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card (rev 01)

Now what you need is the windows driver for the card. Go to this page and find your card in the list(s) and get the required driver. Now you might need cabextract or unshield to get the real files from the setup. So install both of them

cabextract
unshield

Once you have the installed, open the folder where you have the setup in terminal and use the above given tools to extract it. In my case the command was...

cabextract -d drivers sp34152.exe
The "-d drivers" tells it to extract files into a new folder and call it drivers

And also do a ls *.inf in the folder where the files are extracted. It will list all files that end with a ".inf". Most probably there will be only one - note its name down. If there are more than one, go to this list again and see if it helps.

Go to System >> Administration >> Windows Wireless Drivers and press the Install New Driver button. Now browse to the folder where the files from the setup were extracted and point it to the inf file in it and you are done.

Now you just have to confirm if it installed correctly, start it and make it start at startup each time.

To confirm do a ...
ndiswrapper -l

If done right, it should say that the drivers are installed and stuff.
Now run it by...

sudo depmod -a
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

And in the network settings, set it to "Roaming mode enabled"
Now we get it to start at startup, you have to add "ndiswrapper" to the /etc/modules file.
gksudo gedit /etc/modules

And add "ndiswrapper" to its bottom ( without quotes ), save it and restart. Enjoy wireless internet!

Credits: Abhinav
Source: http://i-eat-noobs.blogspot.com/2007/08/get-wireless-working-in-ubuntu-704.html

Hi guys,

Finally, I've finished my list of wireless tools for Linux, of course, it is available here:

Name: NetworkManager
Url: http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/
Description: NetworkManager attempts to make networking invisible. When moving into areas you've been before, NetworkManager automatically connects to the last network the user chose to connect to. Likewise, when back at the desk, NetworkManager will switch to the faster, more reliable wired network connection.

Name: netapplet
Url: http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/desktop/netapplet.html
Description: netapplet is a freedesktop.org notification area applet that allows
users to change between various network devices or networks in one
click. It includes support for switching between wireless network
ESSIDs as well as more traditional ethernet devices.

Name: Wireless Assistant
Url: http://wlassistant.sourceforge.net/
Description: Wireless Assistant tool to configure wireless networks.

Name: KWiFiManager
Url: http://kwifimanager.sourceforge.net/
Description: The wireless LAN client manager for KDE3.
With the application KWiFiManager you can configure and monitor your wireless LAN PC-Cards under Linux/KDE. The application is designed for KDE version 3.x only. For an (old, unmaintained) KDE2 application, check the KOrinoco project page.

Name:KOrinoco
Url: http://korinoco.sourceforge.net/
Description: KOrinoco - the wireless LAN client manager for KDE2

Name: AirSnort
Url: http://airsnort.shmoo.com/
Description: AirSnort is a wireless LAN (WLAN) tool which recovers encryption keys. AirSnort operates by passively monitoring transmissions, computing the encryption key when enough packets have been gathered.

Name: Wireless Tools
Url: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html
Description: The Wireless Tools (WT) is a set of tools allowing to manipulate the Wireless Extensions. They use a textual interface and are rather crude, but aim to support the full Wireless Extension. There are many other tools you can use with Wireless Extensions, however Wireless Tools is the reference implementation.

Name: WiFi Radar
Url: http://wifi-radar.systemimager.org/
Description: WiFi Radar is a Python/PyGTK2 utility for managing WiFi profiles.
It enables you to scan for available networks and create profiles for your preferred networks. At boot time, running WiFi Radar will automatically scan for an available preferred network and connect to it.

Name: AP Radar
Url: http://apradar.sourceforge.net/
Description: AP Radar is a Linux/GTK+ based graphical netstumbler and wireless profile manager.

Name: Kismet
Url: http://www.kismetwireless.net/
Description: Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system.

Name: gwifiapplet
Url: http://gwifiapplet.sourceforge.net/
Description: The GNOME Wireless Applet is a wireless link quality monitor panel applet for GNOME.

Name: Linux WPA/WPA2/IEEE 802.1X Supplicant
Url: http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/
Description: wpa_supplicant is a WPA Supplicant for Linux, BSD, and Windows with support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i / RSN). It is suitable for both desktop/laptop computers and embedded systems. Supplicant is the IEEE 802.1X/WPA component that is used in the client stations. It implements key negotiation with a WPA Authenticator and it controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11 authentication/association of the wlan driver.

Name: Waveselect
Url: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=19152
Waveselect was first thought of as a replica of the Windows XP wlan-connection tool. It makes it a snap to discover local wlans, and connect to them.

Name: NetworkControl
Url: http://www.arachnoid.com/NetworkControl/index.html
Description: NetworkControl is a free (GPL) Linux (Xwindows GUI-based) utility that allows you to control and monitor your network interfaces, including wireless ones (in that case, you see a signal strength meter, as shown on this page).

Name: KWaveControl
Url: http://kwavecontrol.sourceforge.net/#download
Description: KWaveControl is a tool for wireless devices and it is based on the wireless extensions. It runs under Linux with KDE and docks into the panel.

Name: netchoose
Url: http://www.plutospin.com/netchoose.html
Description: netchoose is a GUI (QT based) wrapper for helping users who need to connect to
multiple wireless network connections on a routine basis. netchoose's strengths are it
allows the user great customization on a per-address basis.

Name: Mobydik.tk
Url: http://www.mobydik.it/
Description: Mobydik.tk is a graphical wrapper for the Linux Wireless Extensions Tools that maintains a list of previously known wireless networks (for re-selection), shows all wireless networks in the immediate vicinity with their signal strengths, and allows easy selection of any of these.

Name: xwconfig
Url: http://www.random-works.co.uk/xwconfig/
Description: xwconfig is a gtk based application for configuring wireless devices. It is based on and uses large chunks of iwconfig from the wireless tools package.

Name: PyWireless
Url: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/PyWireless?content=28637
Description: PyWireless is a basic wireless connection monitor with DCOP support...

Name: netcfg
Url: http://netcfg.sourceforge.net/
Description: network configuration program.

Name: WirelessMonitor
Url: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KWirelessMonitor?content=11576
Description: WirelessMonitor is a small KDE application that docks into the system tray and monitors the wireless network interface.

Name QWireless
Description: QWireless is an easy to use program used mainly as a wireless lan analyser.
Url: http://www.uv-ac.de/qwireless/

Name: wavemanage
Url: http://www.janmorgenstern.de/projects-software.html
Description: wavemon is a ncurses-based monitoring application for wireless network devices.