Re: [zd1211-devs] ZyXEL G-202 USB Wireless Adapter - Nearly Works
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From: Marcus D. H. <cr...@ge...> - 2007-02-28 10:29:39
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On Wednesday 28 February 2007 03:01:54 you wrote: > Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: > > This is my first time trying out this driver, so please be gentle if I > > have missed anything obvious. I checked what I could see to make sure no > > one had gone through this already. I just got a USB wireless adapter with > > an ADSL router and thought I would give it a try - it seems to very > > nearly work. > > > > Things you ask for on the wiki: > > > > Brand & Retail Product: ZyXEL G-202 Wireless USB Adapter > > USB ID: 0586:3410 > > Chip ID: zd1211rw 1-6:1.0: zd1211 chip 0586:3410 v4810 high 00-13-49 > > AL2230_RF pa0 g--- > > I just looked at the windows driver for this hardware. I have not seen > the driver files named in this way before. Anyway, some strings in the > .sys files suggest that this is a 1215 chip, which is actually just an > alternative name for zd1211b. So, it looks like you may have specified > the wrong device type in your modification to the driver, and this may > be causing you some of the problems you are seeing. > You were right! It seems to be working pretty well with zd1211b. I am sending this email through a connection using the device, wpa_supplicant and WPA2. It does seem to be limited to 11 Mbit/s though - I will see if I can figure this out. I will use this as my main connection for a while to see how stable it is but so far it looks good. The output from dmesg also looks better now, zd1211rw 1-6:1.0: firmware version 4725 zd1211rw 1-6:1.0: zd1211b chip 0586:3410 v4810 high 00-13-49 AL2230_RF pa0 g--- zd1211rw 1-6:1.0: eth1 Thanks for your help (I should have probably just tried the b type driver). Let me know if there is any more I can do to help get this device supported by the driver. Thanks, Marcus |