Zydas ZD1211 WiFi drivers and Dapper

[Larry Grover]

Lee McLain wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
>    I have a Belkin F5D7050 USB WiFi adapter that has the Zydas ZD1211
> chipset in it.  I got the drivers working under Breezy, but I have had no
> luck under Dapper.

I have a ZD1211-based wireless USB adapter, which I used until I figured 
out how to make the airport extreme card in my iBook work.  Under Dapper 
(6.06) my ZD1211 adapter "just works".  I didn't have to do anything 
special to use it.

>    I tried using the module source that is in the repositories, but with no
> luck.  I even made sure by changing the makefile so that it used the 1211b
> option.  Both resulted in not  setting up an interface.

I'm not sure what you're trying to do here.  I did not need any source 
packages.

>    I made sure that the modules were being loaded(they were) and still
> don't have a clue as to what is wrong.
>    Has anyone out there gotten this chipset to work under Dapper?

Here's a couple of things you could check:

(1) Is the firmware for the ZD1211 chip in place on your system?  It 
should be, I think it gets installed as part of one of the kernel 
packages.  However, to verify that the firmware is installed, open up an 
terminal window (xterm, gnome-terminal, konsole, etc), and run:

ls /lib/firmware/`uname -r`/zd1211*

The output from this command should look like this:

/lib/firmware/2.6.15-23-powerpc/zd1211b-WS11Ub.fw
/lib/firmware/2.6.15-23-powerpc/zd1211b-WS11UPh.fw
/lib/firmware/2.6.15-23-powerpc/zd1211b-WS11UPhm.fw
/lib/firmware/2.6.15-23-powerpc/zd1211b-WS11UPhR.fw
/lib/firmware/2.6.15-23-powerpc/zd1211b-WS11Ur.fw
/lib/firmware/2.6.15-23-powerpc/zd1211-WS11Ub.fw
/lib/firmware/2.6.15-23-powerpc/zd1211-WS11UPh.fw
/lib/firmware/2.6.15-23-powerpc/zd1211-WS11UPhm.fw
/lib/firmware/2.6.15-23-powerpc/zd1211-WS11UPhR.fw
/lib/firmware/2.6.15-23-powerpc/zd1211-WS11Ur.fw

(2) Does the system recognize your USB device when you plug it in?  Run 
the following in a terminal window (enter your password when prompted):

sudo tail -f /var/log/messages

Immediately after you plug in your device, you should see something 
similar to this (what I get when I connect my ZD1211 USB adapter):

Jun  5 00:23:30 localhost kernel: [29958.649338] usb 4-1: new high speed 
USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
Jun  5 00:23:31 localhost kernel: [29959.587505] ZD1211 802.11b/g USB 
WLAN driver v20050315 loaded
Jun  5 00:23:31 localhost kernel: [29959.587520] (c) Willig, Yang, 
Zviskov et al.
Jun  5 00:23:31 localhost kernel: [29959.587525] 
http://zd1211.sourceforge.net/
Jun  5 00:23:31 localhost kernel: [29959.588378] zd1211 device 
(0x07b8,0x6001) found.
Jun  5 00:23:31 localhost kernel: [29959.588387] zd1211 device on USB 
2.0 Host
Jun  5 00:23:31 localhost kernel: [29959.588424] Firmware Version = 4330
Jun  5 00:23:31 localhost kernel: [29959.588466] EEPROM Version = 4330
Jun  5 00:23:31 localhost kernel: [29959.605051] Downloaded firmware.
Jun  5 00:23:32 localhost kernel: [29960.974647] usbcore: registered new 
driver zd1211

If you don't see something similar to this, would you please post the 
output from the "lsusb" command, run in a terminal window, with the USB 
adapter plugged in?

Also, you may find these web pages helpful (the wiki entry is mostly 
directed towards getting these devices working on earlier Ubuntu releases):

http://zd1211.ath.cx/
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WifiDocs/Driver/zydas_zd1211?highlight=%28zd1211%29#head-84d3b3a27d6c0e1c3a6ea43044b123db2fb176bb


Regards,
Larry