guiyoforward
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Posted: Jan. 10 2006,20:26 |
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Hi there, I am a Linux newbie. I have an old PII 300 Portege Laptop and DSL runs like a breeze in it. I tried a Prism usb wireless dongle and I managed to connect to the net - I was amazed. However, I have a wireless g dongle with a ZD1211 chipset and I can't figure out how to make it work. I know there is the wrapper thing (which doesn't seem to work, see other post) and the ZD guys actually have a proper linux driver, but this [the compilation of the driver] is beyond the newbie reach. Please help!
These are the instructions on the linux driver readme:
Building zd1211:
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1) untar the package using the command:
tar zxvf zd1211-XXXX.tar.gz
2) edit the Makefile to make sure the path of KERNEL_SOURCE is your
are running, and the kernel version is correctly configure.
3) Under zd1211-XXXX/zdsta directory, use "make clean", "make", "make install"
to make and install driver.
Running:
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- If you have hotplug installed, the drivers should now be loaded. If not,
load them by hand: modprobe -v zd1211
(or Under zd1211-XXXX/zdsta directory use "insmod zd1211.o" for kernel 2.4.x,
"insmod zd1211.ko" for kernel 2.6.x)
- Check if the modules are loaded with lsmod. It should look like this:
...
zd1211 183576 0 (unused)
...
- Run 'ifconfig <iface> <your IP address>'
- Run 'iwconfig <iface> ' to configure the wireless setting, here are
some examples, more detail information please check with 'man iwconfig'.
Example:
iwconfig <iface> essid "My Network" //Set essid
iwconfig <iface> channel 1 //Set channel
iwconfig <iface> mode Managed (Station mode) //Set operation mode
iwconfig <iface> mode Ad-Hoc (Ah-Hoc mode)
iwconfig <iface> rts 512 //Set rts threshold
iwconfig <iface> frag 512 //Set fragment threshold
iwconfig <iface> key s:password [2] //Set encryption key
iwconfig <iface> power on/off //Set power-save mode
......
These are the posts in this forum covering the same issue:
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....=zd1211
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....=zd1211
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....=zd1211
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....=zd1211
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