Quote Originally Posted by Innova View Post
I just bought a trendnet TEW-424UB:
Code:
wesley@kids-desktop:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:8189 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
I used the modified driver from here: http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/rtl8187b/.

After setting up my interfaces file:
And restarting networking, I get the following error:

Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:14:d1:48:1e:1c
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:14:d1:48:1e:1c
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.[/CODE]

Did I grab the wrong driver, or did I set up my interfaces file incorrectly?
The modified rtl8187b driver you used requires ipw driver for encryption, so try to modify your intefaces file:

Code:
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-driver ipw
wpa-ssid linksys 
wpa-ap-scan 1
wpa-proto RSN
wpa-pairwise CCMP
wpa-group CCMP
wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK 
wpa-psk KEY_GOES_HERE