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wireless usb success

I just had success installing a TrendNet TEW-424ub wireless usb adaptor on an old laptop. I ended up using ndiswrapper with the supplied windows driver on the cdrom that came with the device.

There were a couple of tricky sticking points:

  1. To find the correct .sys and .inf files, I had to install on windows XP, since the files were not actually present on the cdrom.

  2. After hours of searching, I stumbled across the solution to my networking problem. My /etc/network/interfaces file needed to contain "open" after the wireless-key:

    auto wlan0
    iface wlan0 inet dhcp
    wireless-key open XXXXXXXXXX
    wireless-essid XXXXX

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