On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:56:37 +1200 Andrew Errington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, I am sat in the lounge, using my laptop with the Edimax USB Wifi > dongle plugged in. In the hallway is a DLink DWL900AP+ connected to my > home network. KMail is running on the server machine in the server room[1] > and I am running VNC on the laptop to compose this message on the server... > with no wires. > > So, the drivers from Absolute Value do not support the Zydas ZD1201. > > http://www.linux-wlan.org/ > > I might email them and ask if they will in the future. As Nick says, the > ZD1201 is commented out in the driver source. > > I tried the drivers from SourceForge: > > http://linux-lc100020.sourceforge.net/ > > I am using this with Debian 3.0 (woody), with kernel 2.4.18. Version 0.3 > would not compile, for I don't know what reason. Version 0.2 looked a lot > different, and *did* compile. Plug in the USB dongle and off it went. I > played with some of the wlanctl-ng commands in the PDF file, then had to > turn on the DHCP server on the DLink AP and I could see the new IP address > with ifconfig. > > The reason I say it's a qualified success is because I'm not sure what to > do next. > > 1) It seems to work > 2) The driver is about a year old, but seems to have been dropped by 'the > community' > 3) The usb driver in the kernel has a bug which prevents the dongle from > being set up when it is plugged it. The patch provided to fix this works. > 4) To get it going I had to recompile my kernel, but I don't have > everything going with the new kernel I built. build it again with the right confguration - start with the config from the original kernel and add what you nned to get the zydas card going. i see the kernel patches are only for (some of) the 2.4 series - have you found any for the 2.6 series? or have they been assimilated into the kernel tree? which kernel are you using? >This means I have had to > switch between the stock kernel to surf the web (wired) and the new kernel > to build the wireless drivers. Now they're going I might see if I can just > put them in /lib/modules/xxx and have them work with the stock kernel. unlikely to work unless you built them against the same kernel source (including patches) and the same .config. > > Anyway, that's where I'm at. I haven't tried any of the wireless tools > yet, but there's not much I can see from here apart from the AP in the > hall. > you probably need to set up some routing, can you ping the AP? your post is a bit inadequate on describing what comes after the AP - how is the AP connected to the net, etc > I hope this helps someone, especially once Google eats this message. > > Andy > > [1] Hot-water cupboard > -- > Now playing: Sisters Of Mercy - When You Don't See Me (Germa..Temple Of > Love (1992) -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
