topic title: Wireless hook-up failure
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Javelin Dan
Joined: 26 Jan 2011
#16
Dolphin_Oracle -

I looked on the back of the box and it says it supports both 2.0 and 1.1 usb. Keep in mind that I did have a wireless connection on this computer (with XP) using a Trendnet dongle that I was too dumb at the time to even worry about the USB version.
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#17
Post the out put of

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lsusb
as OHH suggested so we can see the exact chipset this dongle uses.

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$ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 064e:d101 Suyin Corp. Acer CrystalEye Webcam
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:8189 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8187B Wireless 802.11g 54Mbps Network Adapter
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub