HOWTO setup Linksys WUSB54G V4 wireless in Ubuntu Gusty
Posted by admin on April 2nd, 2008 
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build-essential and linux-headers-’uname -r’
sudo aptitude install build-essential linux-headers-’uname -r’
The first thing you will need to do is find a way of getting the RT2570 CVS driver on to your computer from here
Extract the contents of the archive into your home folder.
Then in the the terminal
cd rt2570-cvs-xxxxxxxxxx
(where xxxxxxxxxx is what that part of the folder name which you extracted. (it changes depending on the date)
and then change into the module directory:
cd Module
after that make the source code:
make
and then install as root
sudo make install
That covers installing the driver. Now if all goes well you will need to blacklist the default driver that comes with Gutsy.
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
at the bottom add “blacklist rt2500usb” (without the quoatation marks)
Then restart and manually configure your network by clicking the network monitor and choosing “manual configuration” and click “wireless connection” and then properties. Untick “enable roaming mode” and fill in the details as necessary then press ok and be sure to check the box next to wireless configuration.. And restart again and check if you are connected.
If you are not connected, in the terminal:
sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces
and change all occurrences of “rausb1″ to “rausb0″ and then yet again, restart.
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April 2nd, 2008 at 4:20 am
Hrm… where were you three months ago when I was pulling my hair out trying to set this up?!?! =)
How are the download rates using this driver? I can’t remember if I tried driver or not but one of the drivers I was told to try didn’t do so hot in the download speed category.
I actually ended up downloading the latest driver from Linksys website and used ndiswrapper and I get very good download rates, actually maybe even a bit better than I was getting with the same wireless device in Windows. The trick if you go with the ndiswrapper option: you need to install all three files in the driver directory from Linksys… most of the how-to documents only mention two, but if you don’t copy over the third file it won’t work.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:07 am
This guide helped me. Thank you very much.