configure Wireless USB

Hi, I'm using a Belkin Basic Wireless USB adapter model: F7D1101 v1
in a attempt to connect to my network with beagleboard in Angstrom.

I'm not having any luck. I tried enabling wifi in the network setup
GUI but that doesn't seem to have worked.

on boot it detects the hardware:
[ 18.530364] usb 1-2.4.1: new high speed USB device using ehci-omap
and addre6
[ 18.658111] usb 1-2.4.1: New USB device found, idVendor=050d,
idProduct=945a
[ 18.667297] usb 1-2.4.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
SerialNum3
[ 18.674987] usb 1-2.4.1: Product: Basic Wireless USB
Adapter
[ 18.682312] usb 1-2.4.1: Manufacturer: Manufacturer
Realtek
[ 18.688049] usb 1-2.4.1: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001

wireless tools doesn't seem to find it from root shell

root@beagleboard:~#
iwconfig
lo no wireless
extensions.

usb0 no wireless
extensions.

root@beagleboard:~# ifdown
wlan0
ifdown: interface wlan0 not
configured
root@beagleboard:~# ifconfig wlan0 essid
malignant
essid: Host name lookup
failure
ifconfig: `--help' gives usage information
root@beagleboard:~# ifdown
wlan0
ifdown: interface wlan0 not
configured
root@beagleboard:~# [ 697.334564] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): usb0: link is
not ready

Am I missing something obvious here? Any suggestions for getting it to
work are appreciated.

Thank you for your time,

Grant

Hi!!
I am using a similar board (OMAP), I got the following in console:

usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci-omap and address
2
usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda,
idProduct=8187
usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
SerialNumber=3
usb 1-2: Product:
RTL8187_Wireless_LAN_Adapter
usb 1-2: Manufacturer:
Manufacturer_Realtek_RTL8187_
usb 1-2: SerialNumber: 0018E73292D4

but the problem is that i cannot get wifi enabled, could you help me?

what is your lsmod output ?

2011/1/8 Alejandro santana <santana.esime@gmail.com>

http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/AngstromManual#Communications.26Networking

About 3/4 through the page is “Networking using wifi/802.11” and should have the information you’re looking for.

Cheers

Aaron