How do I install ZD1211 driver for trendnet 424 USB WIFI?

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How do I install ZD1211 driver for trendnet 424 USB WIFI?

#1 Post by patrick33 »

Hi all,

First, remenber i'am french and my english is bad...
And, i just try to use a small distrib to know how it's working.

I burn a CD with PUPPY and i save datas to an USB drive (PNY, it's my work!).It's the only distrib can work well on my notebook.

All work exept wifi!!!!! I read a lot of forum....and i don't understand how to install it. I have XP drivers (INF+SYS) for Ndiswrapper, i have linux driver for ZD1211 but:
HOW TO USE "MAKE" to compil it ???
When i type "make" or "make install" a message tell me is not a bash command. i think a module missing but how to install it ?

My config is :

Celeron Mobil 1.5 512Mo SIS ship
Wifi is trendnet 424 on USB port, use ZD1211 drivers (i can read)
(With embeded network, connection is OK)

Thanks for your help

patrick from BORDEAUX France
(si un francais lis ca, qu'il pense a moi)

Merci.

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#2 Post by MU »

Download ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributio ... r_devx.sfs

Copy it do the drive that appears as /mnt/home in puppy.

Reboot.
Now you have make.

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#3 Post by tempestuous »

Oh. Another wireless chipset I didn't know existed - ZyDAS ZD1211. Your adaptor is not listed on the ndiswrapper compatibility webpage.
I suppose you're trying to compile the driver from http://sourceforge.net/projects/zd1211/
I will compile this driver myself and put it with the others at http://mymirrors.homelinux.org/puppy/wireless/

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#4 Post by pbucau »

Hi,

Thanks for your help.Yes i try the drivers for ZD1211 at first.
I'll try it this evening at home.

I send you result.

patrick.

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#5 Post by pbucau »

Hi,

It's working well !!! THANKS (i use usr_devx.sfs )

BUT :

How to save the config of WiFI when logout PUPPY ?(others configs as saved on my usb disk but no wireless config)

and,

how to config wep key ? (without key it's working when using PUPYY utility to config network)

When i set the router with my wep key ,i don't know how to....

Thanks a lots.

Patrick

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#6 Post by pbucau »

UP

Thanks

Patrick

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need zd1211 for TEW-424UB

#7 Post by sledmouth »

Could one of you guys please put the zd1211 driver up on the wifi driver page? I'm on a 64MB CF and have no room to add make...
Thanks!

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#8 Post by willhunt »

they offer the driver on there dload page

http://www.zydas.com.tw/web_driver/ZD12 ... _0_0_0.zip

don't know if it works yet or not



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#9 Post by tempestuous »

http://mymirrors.homelinux.org/puppy/wireless/ is not administered by me. I have to ask for access, and I want to wait until various other packages have been tested and updated first before I add the Zydas driver.

For now, I attach it to this message. Uncompress it from /
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zd1211-20050822.tar.gz
(97.62 KiB) Downloaded 563 times

jcl59

and what after download???

#10 Post by jcl59 »

Another french; sorry for the english.
I downloaded your file and found three inside. Untar them and I got a new directory zd1211 in /lib/modules/net/wireless
and inside this directory a file with a .o extension.

I suppose after that i had to use modprobe. But modprobe can't find any module.

I would appreciate some help... (why not a brief tutorial?)

Puppy is on a USB stick and my wifi is also USB, brand SITECOM WL 113 and I found the linux driver was zd1211.

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#11 Post by tempestuous »

README attached.
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#12 Post by rarsa »

I just got this same USB addapter just to have an extra device test while I work on the network wizard but I'm having problems making it work:

The USB viewer shows it as 'Unknown device' but has the right device info, so I know that the USB port is OK and that the device is correctly plugged in.

I tried with ndiswrapper but it only shows "driver found" not "hardware found"

Now I'm trying this zd1211 driver:
- The module loads OK with modprobe
- lsmod shows

Code: Select all

zd1211_mod            201024   0  (unused)
- dmesg shows

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usb.c: USB device 5 (vend/prod 0x457/0x163) is not claimed by any active driver.
ZD1211 802.11b/g USB WLAN driver v20050315 loaded
(c) Willig, Yang, Zviskov et al.
http://zd1211.sourceforge.net/
usb.c: registered new driver zd1211
- ifconfig and iwconfig don't show the interface.


What am I missing?

The addapter model and version is TEW-424UB/CA H/W:V2 (it's not the flat one, it's the rounded one)

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#13 Post by rarsa »

I know what's wrong with te zd1211.

The version of the addapter I have uses a different chipset (SiS163u). Still I cannot get it to work with ndiswrapper. I'll keep trying.

I was going to edit my original post but I realized that knowing that there are two versions of this same addapter may help someone else.

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#14 Post by Guest »

The SiS 163u chipset is only supported in latest ndiswrapper versions(v1.4 and up)

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#15 Post by rarsa »

Thank you,

I actually tested with ndiswrapper 1.7, 1.6 and 1.5.

with the same result. It does not seem to detect the 'hardware'.

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#16 Post by edoc »

rarsa wrote:Thank you,
I actually tested with ndiswrapper 1.7, 1.6 and 1.5.
with the same result. It does not seem to detect the 'hardware'.
Am wondering which version of ndiswrapper is in Puppy 1.0.7?

I have run into the same wall of the driver being recognized but the hardware not with a Trendware wireless pci nic.

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#17 Post by puppyman »

If ifconfig -a does show the wireless nic, AND the zd1211 driver was loaded as shown by lsmod, that means the nic is down probably due to the lack of an ip address. You can assign one to it using a dhcp client like 'pump' or 'dhcpcd' (don't forget to specify the nic such as eth0 or eth1). Or you can assign one such as:

ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.100 (if you know that the network you want to connect to has an ip of 192.168.1.xxx, and that no other devices has gotten that ip address). Change eth0 to eth1 as appropriate.

But if ifconfig -a does not show the wireless nic, see if the hardware is actually detected by:

cat /proc/bus/usb/devices to see if it is listed. It should since you reported the message '....detected but not claimed by any active driver...'

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#18 Post by rarsa »

puppyman wrote:cat /proc/bus/usb/devices to see if it is listed. It should since you reported the message '....detected but not claimed by any active driver...'
That's the strange thing that dmesg shows the driver without hardware and the usb device without driver.

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#19 Post by tm »

Is it possible you have the incorrect driver? Might try the latest driver from SiS website. HTH

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#20 Post by rarsa »

I've tried the one from the CD and the one from the SiS web site to no avail.

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