On 24 Jun 2008, at 18:02, John M Cohn wrote:
Mr Codger...
Thanks so much rot the lead.. I was able to get the firmware in
there.. but I'm not sure what commands I need to do to bring the
link up and configure it. Do you have any guidance there ?
When I do an 'ifconfig wlan0 up' it tells me it cant find the device
Thanks again for your help
-jc
John Cohn PhD
IBM Fellow - Systems and Technology Group
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Re: Building zd1211 drivers fore WiFi dongle
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I have a wifi dongle working on a slug using Debian Sid. But, I got
the firmware from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=129083
The README says put them in /lib/firmware/zd1211/
As I said I am using Debian Sid on the NSLU2.
You need to get wpasupplicant and wireless-tools
My /etc/network/interfaces contains either
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa_ap_scan 1
wpa_scan_ssid 1
wpa_ssid "WPAnet"
# #psk "some password"
wpa_psk
e36f5fbf83d5ba33aa52ff13875af7d8dabb5868aa03889704ef5ab3b0e9f65d
wpa_proto WPA2
wpa_key_mgmt WPA-PSK
wpa_pairwise CCMP
wpa_group CCMP
wpa_auth_alg OPEN
OR
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa_scan_ssid 1
wpa_ssid "WEPNet"
# #psk "helphelphelps"
wpa_wep_key0 68656c7068656c7068656c7073
wpa_key_mgmt NONE
wpa_group WEP104
wpa_auth_alg SHARED
wpa_wep_tx_keyidx 0
Use wpa_passphrase to generate the wpa_psk string.
I used http://paulschou.com/tools/xlate/ to convert the 13 ascii
characters to hex.
you can use: iwlist wlan0 scan
to see if the dongle finds any networks.
To get the wlan0 associated to the access point I used
ifup -v wlan0
ifconfig gives;
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0e:8f:0d:64:ff
inet addr:192.168.1.14 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:
255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:41 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:62 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:11589 (11.3 KiB) TX bytes:16301 (15.9 KiB)
wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-0E-8F-0D-64-
FF-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
iwconfig gives
wlan0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"WPAnet"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.452 GHz Access Point: 00:1A:
59:7B:FA:2E
Bit Rate=18 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption key:782C-6F44-3267-FCD0-ADAE-2854-6FE9-1C38 [3]
Link Quality=58/100 Signal level:75/100
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
I have experienced some trouble resolving local addresses when the
ethernet is not used.
w3m www.google.com works fine, but ping mymac.local (the computer I
am ssh'd in with does not )
I also cannot do a ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] from mymac.
I have found a workaround involving running "wpa_cli scan" in /etc/
rc.local and
the same one line bash script in /etc/network/if-up.d/zscan
But this only works if you install updated drivers using compat-
wireless from http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/
compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2
and you will need to install via apt-get "linux-headers-2.6.25-2-all-
armel" to compile compat-wireless
I have no idea why the above works for me.
Alan
