On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:46:26 +1200 Andrew Errington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:45, you wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:56:37 +1200 > > > > Andrew Errington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snip> > > > 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. > > Well, there's nothing in the kernel I need to add. All I need is the > patched usb.c and hub.c and the drivers themselves. ok well may i suggest you patch the kernel as required then build it with the same config file that worked with the machine before you did all this (ie the same .config that you say works with everything else in your "stock" kernel), i think the stock debian kernels keep a copy of .config in the boot dir, named fairly intuitively. > > > 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? > > "I am using this with Debian 3.0 (woody), with kernel 2.4.18" - is what I > wrote. oops sorry, my wife calls it male blindness! > I have not looked for any other kernel patches as I don't need > them. I tried Knoppix 3.6, which uses kernel 2.4.27, and that still had > the usb bug, so I'm not sure if or where the fix has been incorporated. for the record i perused drivers/usb/core/usb.c in the 2.6.8 kernel, and it certainly hasn't had the patch incorporated, maybe it hasn't even been submitted, who knows. I guess kernel bugzilla may tell us if it is ever going to be. also for the record the 0.3 version of the zydas driver built fine on my laptop (2.6.7 kernel), but I have nothing to test it with. > > > >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. > > What I meant by 'seeing' was 'seeing other wireless devices'. I don't > think any of my neighbours have wireless APs turned on, ergo, the only one > I can see is the one I already know about because I put it there. > > > 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 > > "In the hallway is a DLink DWL900AP+ connected to my home network." I > suppose I did not mention that my home network is connected to Telstra > Cable through a router. > > Running dhclient on wlan0 got me an IP address from the AP and set up > routing. As well as VNC-ing to the server on the home LAN I could browse > the internet at large. > excellent, sorry i thought you meant you couldn't "see" past the AP (some of them have nice web pages built in, but they get boring after a while) come into the office and you should "see" something on the roof of clarendon, but I haven't tried to actually get any further (anyway even if i wanted to it would be illegal), i just noticed that my wireless card associated with the access point, but naturally didn't get an ip address. > Andy -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
