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michaelbischof

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Registered: 2012-01-20

Posts: 536

wlan - trouble with zd1201

@All

I just ran into trouble using an old WLAN-USB-Stick:

root@slitaz:~$ lsusb

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1058:1021 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Elements 2TB

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 058f:6362 Alcor Micro Corp. Flash Card Reader/Writer

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Bus 002 Device 006: ID 0586:3400 ZyXEL Communications Corp. ZyAIR B-220 IEEE 802.11b Adapter

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

root@slitaz:~$ lsmod | grep zd

zd1201                 12818  0

root@slitaz:~$ iwconfig wlan0

wlan0     No such device

(On an old Mandriva installation it works. So I copied the firmware from there to a new directory /lib/firmware/zd1201 - and inserted the USB-stick again:)

Dmesg shows then:

usb 2-5: new full-speed USB device number 7 using ohci_hcd

usb 2-5: Failed to load zd1201.fw firmware file!

usb 2-5: Make sure the hotplug firmware loader is installed.

usb 2-5: Goto http://linux-lc100020.sourceforge.net for more info.

usb 2-5: zd1201 firmware upload failed: -2

zd1201: probe of 2-5:1.0 failed with error -2

Does anybody know which firmware-tazpkg is suitable for this model?

Regards,

Michael

bellard

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Registered: 2011-03-28

Posts: 657

Re: wlan - trouble with zd1201

Try:

# tazpkg get-install zd1211rw-firmware

or

# tazpkg get-install zd1211-firmware

lexeii

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Registered: 2012-03-21

Posts: 1,853

Re: wlan - trouble with zd1201

Hi Michael.

SliTaz don't contains any firmware for zd1201; only Kernel modules are available:

http://pkgs.slitaz.org/?file=zd1201

Maybe this article will help you? —

https://wiki.debian.org/zd1201

michaelbischof

Member

Registered: 2012-01-20

Posts: 536

Re: wlan - trouble with zd1201

Dear @Aleksej, dear @Belard

thank for you the tips. It does not woirk yet. I installed the package of Bellard, the diver is loaded according to lsmod, but I get with ifconfig the message „no wireless extensions“. So there is still something wrong.

bellard

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Registered: 2011-03-28

Posts: 657

Re: wlan - trouble with zd1201

Can you test http://tank.slitaz.org/~bellard/zd1201-firmware-0.14.tazpkg ?

michaelbischof

Member

Registered: 2012-01-20

Posts: 536

Re: wlan - trouble with zd1201

@Bellard

Thank you very much! Installed, functions good. No connection yet, but this seems just a configuration problem. There is another stick, with this chip

Bus 001 Device 005: ID 148f:3070 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2870/RT3070 Wireless Adapter

- that connects with these data:

Output of iwconfig:

wlan1     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:"WLANMB"

          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: 00:1A:4F:99:DD:79

          Bit Rate=1 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm

          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off

          Encryption key:passwd

          Power Management:on

          Link Quality=41/70  Signal level=-69 dBm

          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0

          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:8   Missed beacon:0

These values are the wifi settings in the main /etc/network.conf configuration file

WIFI="yes"

WIFI_INTERFACE="wlan1"

WIFI_ESSID="WLANMB"

WIFI_KEY="passwd"

WIFI_KEY_TYPE="WEP"

WIFI_AP="wlan1"

WIFI_MODE="master"

WIFI_CHANNEL="11"

WIFI_IDENTITY=""

so I just have to configure it right. Wicd does not work here, see neighbouring thread, but I can use tapanel as well.

The most charming feature of slitaz on older hardware is always this:

root@slitaz:/home/tux/Desktop$ free

             total         used         free       shared      buffers

Mem:       3567672       142884      3424788            0         7000

-/+ buffers:             135884      3431788

Swap:      7052280            0      7052280

Important on a 500MB-RAM machine. This beats any other OS by far! And the old linux hands in our Penguin User Group admit that it means: the internal construction of Slitaz must be really smart and sophisticated! ;-)