How TO - Zydas ZD1211 on Edgy with WPA

[shof2k]

There are obviously problems with kernels above 2.6.17! I have tried lots of different things with my asus a9rp but only 2.17 will work. Have tried for hours now to get it working on faisty but to no avail. I have even tried linuxant... doesn't work either

IT is the same here btw - it doesn't compile.

I would really like to be able to upgrade some day! Any hints?

Ketil

Fiesty is still in development, so I expect there would be problems. Personally, I don't upgrade until it's at RC4 or officially released.

My advice is to stick with Edgy or Dapper for now and have patience for Fiesty. Conversely for those who can code and debug, perhaps getting zd1211rw is a worth task?

[heri]

THANK YOU !

Works perfectly with my 3Com USB WiFi Adapter 3CRUSB10075 on Dapper.
I am using the newest driver r83.

All the best.

WOW .... I'm on Faisty Fawn Herd 3 now and glad to confirm that the dongle just WORKS OUT OF THE BOX ....!!!

WOW..

[shof2k]

WOW .... I'm on Faisty Fawn Herd 3 now and glad to confirm that the dongle just WORKS OUT OF THE BOX ....!!!

WOW..

Is that with WPA out of the box too?

[heri]

Is that with WPA out of the box too?

Well, I just tried it in the live cd mode, did not configure anything.

The adapter is still recognized as eth1... but it feels good when something just works ..

I think final version of Fiesty will be really a nice distro ......

All the best,

[trippinnik]

You don't need fiesty. I just built the new 2.6.20 kernel which added the USB Id for my Planax version. I am not sure if that's even necessary but the main thing that prevented me from getting in to work in the earlier versions was that I didn't grab the firmware and put it in the right place.
Here's what I did:

I built the new kernel. You can follow this guide: http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_ubuntu

the module for the zd1211rw is included by default but you may want to customize your kernel while your compiling anyway.

next grab the firmware from here:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...kage_id=187875

follow the instructions from the included Readme, it says basically put the files in the /lib/firmware/zd1211 directory (you have to create the zd1211 directory)

Plug in the card and check dmesg.
should be all good. I even have network manager going now and could pick up like 8 networks around my apartment. I could really only find one of the before.

Let me know how you guys do with this. Don't worry compiling the kernel seems difficult but it just takes some time. I prefer to use xconfig instead of menuconfig because it has more information about my choices.

[DarthFrog]

I did an "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" today, which installed the 2.6.17-11-generic kernel. The kernel zd1211rw driver works with the wpa_supplicant wext driver just fine out of the box, no need for downloading & compiling source.

My wpa_supplicant.conf file:

network={
ssid="Camp_Chaos"
scan_ssid=1
pairwise=TKIP
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
proto=WPA
#psk="******"
psk=A_Long_Hex_String
}

My /etc/network/interfaces file:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

pre-up /sbin/wpa_supplicant -B -w -D wext -i eth1 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
post-up route add default gw 192.168.1.1
post-down killall -q wpa_supplicant

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Cheers,
Rob

[shof2k]

Thanks for the update Rob. My waters are feeling better that Feisty will give Zydas support out of the box.

Once this is done, perhaps we can then do bluetooth

[kir]

Upgrading to Feisty caused my zd1211 to stop working, and now I fail to rebuild it (to reinstall) due to the "linux/congig.h - no such file or directory".

Is there different instructions for feisty?

Thanks,
Boris

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UPDATE:
ZD1211 really works out-of-the box in Feisty.
The point is that after upgrading from Edgy one should:
- modprobe back the original zd1211rw
- remove 'blacklist zd1211rw' line from /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist