[UNSOLVED...] Linksys AE1200 Adapter not working.

[TehMouseh]

I installed Mint 12 LXDE on an old HP Brio BA410 reciently as an experiment to see how far I could push it's limited hardware... But before I could do any thing like that, I discovered that no matter what I do, my USB wireless adapter does not work, not even with the Windows Wireless Networking Driver installed... The adapter is a Linksys AE1200. Can anybody help me out here?
EDIT: Problem is I can't connect to anything WPA2 secured. Forgot to mention this. Sorry guys.

[xenopeek]

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According to http://www.wikidevi.com/wiki/Linksys_AE1200 that uses the Broadcom BCM43235 chip. Perhaps you need to install a specific driver for this.

Early last year that was problematic, as a driver was not available for the 4323x series (viewtopic.php?f=53&t=94670&p=542890&hilit=4323#p542890). Not sure of current status.

[TehMouseh]

I tried finding the driver for that specific chipset, but all I found was a lot of stuff saying that "Broadcom drivers came with the Linux Kernel as of 2006", and no driver. Keep in mind, wireless is all I can do, with my apartment supplying free wi-fi, with no known areas to plug in for a connection, so looking through the software manager won't do for me until I DO get this old thing online...

[remoulder]

More information is required in order for anyone to help further. With the adapter plugged in, open a terminal and copy/paste here the outputs of

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lspci
lsusb
lsmod

[TehMouseh]

More information is required in order for anyone to help further. With the adapter plugged in, open a terminal and copy/paste here the outputs of

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lspci
lsusb
lsmod

Ok, I did that, and here's the results I got...

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mrmau5@MintyMau5 ~ $ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8605 [ProSavage PM133] (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8605 [PM133 AGP]
00:04.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 22)
00:04.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10)
00:04.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 10)
00:04.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 30)
00:04.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 20)
00:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3 (rev 01)
mrmau5@MintyMau5 ~ $ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05dc:a813 Lexar Media, Inc. (This is just a flash drive I had plugged in at the time. :P)
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 13b1:0039 Linksys (ADAPTER!!!)
mrmau5@MintyMau5 ~ $ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
nls_iso8859_1          12617  1
nls_cp437              12751  1
vfat                   17308  1
fat                    55577  1 vfat
bnep                   17923  2
rfcomm                 38408  0
bluetooth             148839  10 bnep,rfcomm
vesafb                 13489  1
ppdev                  12849  0
snd_via82xx            24720  2
gameport               15060  1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_codec        106082  1 snd_via82xx
ac97_bus               12642  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                80468  2 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec
snd_page_alloc         14115  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart        13865  1 snd_via82xx
snd_seq_midi           13132  0
snd_rawmidi            25241  2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event     14475  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                51567  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              28932  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device         14172  3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
psmouse                73673  0
snd                    55902  12 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
serio_raw              12990  0
via686a                19446  0
soundcore              12600  1 snd
i2c_viapro             12969  0
parport_pc             32114  1
binfmt_misc            17292  1
shpchp                 32356  0
lp                     17455  0
parport                40930  3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
usb_storage            44173  1
8139too                23283  0
uas                    17699  0
8139cp                 22636  0
pata_via               13359  2
floppy                 60310  0

Yes, I just copied and pasted everything in the terminal window...

[gamax92]

I have the same adapter and I'm having the same issue TehMouseh is having. If you guys got it working that would be awesome!
I can use the windows drivers to get the adapter working, but their seems to be a problem with connecting to a WPA2 wifi signal.

ndiswrapper doesn't list this adapter as one on their list however.

[AlbertP]

You'll need to use ndiswrapper for the moment. Broadcom is working on a Linux driver for the BCM43235 chip.

Edit. Is ndiswrapper-dkms installed?

[TehMouseh]

ndis what? Sorry, bit of a Linux newbie. Not familiar with how some things work on it.

[AlbertP]

Yes, that's a program to load Windows drivers for wifi dongles on Linux. You need to get the .inf and .sys files out of the driver, then you can add them in the Windows Wireless Drivers program in the menu.

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/n ... =Main_Page

Sadly there is no how-to for the Linksys AE1200 and/or its Broadcom BCM43235 chip yet on the website of ndiswrapper.