Hi Laptop Folks:
I thought I finally found a vendor on eBay that sold a Zydas USB
wifi-g stick. Got it home yesterday and decided to build the
driver in the evening.
I managed to get the device to plumb, and then to scan and
see 3 networks, 1 which was open. But I couldn't get a DHCP
address to come back. Just to be sure it worked, I installed
it using WinXP and it works fine.
Here are some notes:
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a) wificonfig seems broken. The internal README inside the
src package says I can use this, but wificonfig doesn't recognize
this devices as wifi. I had to revert to dladm. Inetmenu
relies on wificonfig and so it too is failing to configure the
interface.
b) I modified the gmake add command to also put in 0ace,1215
as a device. It plumbs but still can't get dhcp.
c) looked at the source in in the zyd_usb.c, I modified the
first request to load firmware (line 979) to:
zres = zyd_usb_loadfirmware (uc, zd1211b_firmware,
zd1211b_firmware_size);
This changes the firmware from zd1211 to zd1211b (which I thought
I saw on the web somewhere was more compatible with zd1215.
This also still plumbs but cant get DHCP address.
d) If I boot with the usb stick already inserted, zyd driver
does not load, and I can't get the system to recognize it after
removing and re-inserting. I must boot with this Zydas usb
device removed, wait for the system to complete booting and then
insert it.
e) I did snoop -d zyd0 and I can see many packets flowing
back and forth over the network for the given essid.
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BTW, to make a build environment that doesn't require ONNV,
I simply created a subdirectory inside the zyd-0.1 directory
./mygate/usr/uts/src/common
inside this directory, I have ./sys and ./net and copied over
several headers, like mac.h, mac-wifi.h, net80211.h
wpa.h, and maybe one or more files. I then edited the Makefile
and changed the value of GATE = ./mygate
Any suggestions on what might be wrong? What I should try?
Got anything experimental?
Thanks in advance.
-James
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