Edimax 802.11g 54mbps USB stick (EW-7317UG).

Forum: Networking
Topic: Edimax 802.11g 54mbps USB stick (EW-7317UG).
started by: kmpsuselinuxguy

Posted by kmpsuselinuxguy on Dec. 17 2005,13:09

I have an old laptop to which I thought I'd give a new lease of life
by connecting it up to the Internet.

So I bought an Edimax 802.11g 54mbps USB stick (EW-7317UG).

I've installed DSL 2.0 and I need to get this USB stick to work.

I copied the windows drivers and used ndiswapper.

I now get (if I issue a ndiswrapper -l:

driver loaded hardware present

so far so good

I do a depmod -a

there are some error messages but nothing about the usb stick

then

modprobe ndiswrapper

this says nothing however no wlan0 interface ever appears.Then my laptop usually
crashes soon after. I've tried looking
in /var/log/messages to see if anything gets put there. Usually, nothing does get
written there but I did once see a message that said "Windows Driver failed to initialise".
Unfortunately the laptop locked up before I could capture
this output in a file.

Any idea of where to go from here?

I've also downloaded a linux driver for the device (the Zydas zd1211 chipset)
from sourceforge.

It requires the kernel source which I've downloaded but also
a configured Makefile. I didn't really want to go through
make config - I'm not really experienced in choosing kernel options.
Is there an easy way to get the Makefile for DSL 2.0? I don't really
want to have to go through the entire
process of making and installing a kernel just to install
a module that may not work anyway.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Best wishes

- Ken