Been investigating Debian Etch as an "alternate" distro; also running Mandriva Spring (2007.1). Environment specifics:
1) have a Belkin F5D7050 USB key: uses zd1211b interface and is Airoha AL2230S RF-based. I utilize WPA (PSK) as well. - also have Firewire 1394 (eth0) and a 10/100 MB Ethernet (eth1) connects 2. For Mandriva (kernel 2.6.17-13) I used the zd1211b Vendor-based driver and built my own module. Works AOK ^L^ except for system shut down where interface deactivate "hangs"... 3) For Debian (+2.6.18 ), as you know requires a different approach since the ZD1211 support is now part of the kernel as a "zd1211rw" module. 4. Have updated /etc/modules to assure that zd1211rw loads during boot # This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded # at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored. loop sbp2 zd1211rw 5. Even updated (rightly, wrongly?) /etc/modprobe.d: ....other alias entries.... alias slip1 slip alias tunl0 ipip alias gre0 ip_gre alias usbdevfs usbcore # added 26-Jun-07, link eth2 to ZD1211rw (Belkin USB wireless) alias eth2 zd1211rw 6. Made sure "wireless-tools" was installed; did expected iwconfig- resulting in interface (eth2) not found...:,( E. Additional research in /lib/modules/2.6.18-4, specifically: - modules.alias and modules.usbmap reveals entry for this USB key not present F. Specific USB key info, via lsusb -v: Bus 005 Device 003: ID 050d:705c Belkin Components Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 2.00 bDeviceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class bDeviceSubClass 255 Vendor Specific Subclass bDeviceProtocol 255 Vendor Specific Protocol bMaxPacketSize0 64 idVendor 0x050d Belkin Components idProduct 0x705c bcdDevice 48.10 iManufacturer 16 Belkin iProduct 32 USB2.0 WLAN iSerial 0 bNumConfigurations 1 7. As recommended by the ZD wireless site (http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/zd1211rw) I'm utilizing that firmware (ver 1.3) loading from /lib/firmware/zd1211 8. Verifying zd1211rw loaded (via lsmod): ...other activity... dm_snapshot 15552 0 dm_mirror 19152 0 dm_mod 50232 2 dm_snapshot,dm_mirror zd1211rw 38304 0 firmware_class 9600 1 zd1211rw ieee80211softmac 26304 1 zd1211rw ieee80211 29416 2 zd1211rw,ieee80211softmac ieee80211_crypt 5952 1 ieee80211 sbp2 20840 0 loop 15048 0 Overall- at this time have the following issues/questions: A. No wireless connectivity and NO wireless interface definition (eth2, etc.) B. Curious if I should consider the recently announced "strange" module-driver (http://dsd.object4.net/zd1211rw-strange-al2230s-v2.tar.gz ) since this definitely includes updated and improved AL2230S functionality..? Somewhat frustrated after the relatively "easy" aspects of Vendor-based self-made module on Mandriva. Any/all comments, insights, suggestions are welcome on how to proceed.... -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Debian-Wireless-Issues%3A-Belkin-USB-AL2230S-%28Help-please%21%29-tf4013559.html#a11397837 Sent from the zd1211-devs mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Zd1211-devs mailing list - http://zd1211.wiki.sourceforge.net/ Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/zd1211-devs
