sandeep314

Hello All,

Currently I am using Ubuntu 8.04 version on my laptop. I have a direct connection from my cable modem to my laptop and this is working fine. Can anyone please help me to make my trendnet router wireless. The model # i am using is TEW-432BRP. I called a couple of times and the associates at trendnet said they need a windows OS or mac . I have linux. Is anyone able to help me. Thank You for your time.

Sandeep

shuuhen

Wireless is wireless. Typically companies don't have a Linux/*BSD/etc department, so they specifically put what they've tested. Things that require drivers are another case, but most routers shouldn't require special software (they usually use web-based configuration).

First you need to configure your router over an ethernet (wired) connection. I'd expect Ubuntu to handle WPA, but I'm sure one of the Ubuntu-using members around here will be able to tell you before I can check. WEP is weak, so avoid that unless absolutely necessary. Your router's manual should tell you the address to type into a web browser to get to the configuration page. Typically I see 192.168.2.1, 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1 (although be warned that sometimes cable/DSL modems will use one of those).

We'll want to see what you have for a wireless card to make sure the correct driver is loaded. Open a terminal and use the following commands and post the output from each one.

lspci

uname -r

lsmod


If they come back with command not found, try prefixing each with the sudo command, like sudo lspci

It's been a while since I've needed to do wireless in Linux, so I may need to check on a few things, especially due to Ubuntu's sometimes unique details.

EDIT: Checked the site for the router, and it says it supports Linux (don't know why it wouldn't, but they admit it does).