zd1211 and ubuntu 8.1 problems (SOLVED)

[Redeye ()]

Solved, with thanks to Hin-Tak Leung

The issue was the permissions attached to the driver directory was wrong so the firmware was timing out as it couldnt load the drivers

Solution:
sudo chown -R root.root /lib/firmware/zd1211
sudo find /lib/firmware -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
sudo find /lib/firmware/zd1211 -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

Hi Folks,

Can someone with some knowledge help me please, ive now been told to use lenny, however i think were sooo close to sorting out  usb wifi card that uses zd1211 that i would love someone with some knowledge to spend 5 mins havin a read please.

here is the post http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1063274

Really appreaciate someone having a look,
Many thanks

[Hin-Tak Leung]

Your system seems to be working in the beginning, you were just missing the authentication credentials (ESSID, passphases) - clicking the network manager applet icon should give you a few boxes to fill them in. Then you f*cked it up by installing ndiswrapper. If you use ndiswrapper you should go to the ndiswrapper mailing list.

It is quite in-appropriate to ask somebody to read a 5-page web exchange. I lost patience after the first one.

--- On Wed, 11/2/09, Redeye <jonatmmpuk@...> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> Can someone with some knowledge help me please, ive now
> been told to use
> lenny, however i think were sooo close to sorting out  usb
> wifi card that
> uses zd1211 that i would love someone with some knowledge
> to spend 5 mins
> havin a read please.
>
> here is the post
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1063274
>

     

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[Redeye]

Your system seems to be working in the beginning, you were just missing the authentication credentials (ESSID, passphases) - clicking the network manager applet icon should give you a few boxes to fill them in. Then you f*cked it up by installing ndiswrapper. If you use ndiswrapper you should go to the ndiswrapper mailing list.

It is quite in-appropriate to ask somebody to read a 5-page web exchange. I lost patience after the first one.
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Hi There Hin-Tak Leung

You seemed to have missed the very first line in the very first post.
EDIT: 2nd page post 16 is starting from scratch again with a clean install, please pick this up from there.

I am guessing you were quite busy as there isnt 5 pages either. There is 4 pages with 1 post only on page 4.  The only bits that would interest you would be posts 16-26 which is where i am then advised to use Lenny. So yes i would appreciate it if you could read 10 posts.

I did add essid etc in network manager for wireless, however if you have a look at those posts wlan0 wouldnt ifup due to Ignoring unknown interface wlan0=wlan0.

I have been asked by a moderator of the networking forum to get hold of the folk that own the wiki doc list and set every card that uses the zd1211 to Does Not Work In Ubuntu 8.1 Status.

Rather than just going ahead and doing that, I went out of my way to find the developers, join the mailing list and asked for a little help, then received your response.  To say that i am taken back by your comments is an understatement, so much for me trying to get some positive input and re-writing the zd1211 wiki for ubuntu 8.1 so that no other users would face similair problems.

So is there anychance that either yourself or someone else can attempt to get this working, or would you like me to go ahead and set the hundreds of cards to do not work status for ubuntu 8.1? Please can we keep this positive and constructive from now on. I thought i was helping you.

Edited: to make it obvious using bold that there is only 10 posts to read

[Hin-Tak Leung]

--- On Thu, 12/2/09, Redeye <jonatmmpuk@...> wrote:

> Rather than just going ahead and doing that, I went out of
> my way to find
> the developers, join the mailing list and asked for a
> little help, then
> received your response.  To say that i am taken back by
> your comments is an
> understatement, so much for me trying to get some positive
> input and
> re-writing the zd1211 wiki for ubuntu 8.1 so that no other
> users would face
> similair problems.

It is still very inappropriate to ask somebody else to read pages and apges of post X to post Y. If you have a problem, state your problem concisely, states the steps you have taken, not ask others to go out of their way, do some homework, to help you. You have about 5 minutes of the attention of somebody who may be able to help you, and that's it. You do not waste that 5 minutes.

The fact is, mailing list works very differently from personal e-mails - no body cares about your personal problems, however big it is to you - if by the end of reading of your post, it is still not clear what sort of problem you have and what you are talking about, most people will simply skip your post. All the background stuff you wrote is irrelevant. There is no useful information in your post to help you further.


     

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[Redeye]

It is still very inappropriate to ask somebody else to read pages and apges of post X to post Y....
*it was 1 page as it starts half way down page 2 and finishes halfway down page 3

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Hi again,

Well i totally apologise for trying to provide you with factual information regarding what ubuntu is reporting hardware and driver wise.

I am unsure how to put this concisely without providing this information to you, however i will try.

Wireless is not showing in network icon and querying the hardware the os can see the card, however it seems the driver is not installed corectly.  Synaptic is showing that zd1211 source is not active

Sparklan WUBZ-103 shows as Fiberline WL-430U which uses the zd1211 driver. sudo ifup wlan0 resulted in Ignoring unknown interface wlan0=wlan0.

I was told that i need the zd1211-firmware but apt-get cannot get it with all repo's ticked as it is moved or obselete.
downlaoding and installing from  http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/z/zd1211-firmware/zd1211-firmware_2.21.0.0-0.1_all.deb errors out with dpkg: error processing /tmp/zd1211-firmware_2.21.0.0-0.1_all.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite /lib/firmware/zd1211/zd1211b_uphr', which is also in package linux-package.

modprobe zd1211. states module not found

I really hope that helps. Thats about as short as i can make it.  Im not trying to get on your nerves.
Best Regards

Edited: to add a bit more info and make the first paragraph more concise

[Hin-Tak Leung]

--- On Thu, 12/2/09, Redeye <jonatmmpuk@...> wrote:

> I was told that i need the zd1211-firmware but apt-get
> cannot get it with
> all repo's ticked as it is moved or obselete.
> downlaoding and installing from

Still too much irrelevance. read this entry about the
'Debian users beware: don't use the the zd1211-firmware package'

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/zd1211rw#Firmware

and the url for where to download the firmware packages.




     

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[Jelle de Jong]

Hin-Tak Leung wrote:

>
> --- On Thu, 12/2/09, Redeye <jonatmmpuk@...> wrote:
>
>> I was told that i need the zd1211-firmware but apt-get
>> cannot get it with
>> all repo's ticked as it is moved or obselete.
>> downlaoding and installing from
>
> Still too much irrelevance. read this entry about the
> 'Debian users beware: don't use the the zd1211-firmware package'
>
> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/zd1211rw#Firmware
>
> and the url for where to download the firmware packages.
>

Hi Hin-Tak, could you provide some more information about the debian
zd1211-firmware package versus the firmware package of the zd1211 project:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=129083&package_id=187875

What are the differences, how it the development related?

I am a heavy user of the zd1211 firmware package, i got Debian bug
reports against it and it test lots and lots of zd12xx based usb wifi
devices with the package. I also provide support for it. So i am very
very interested what is going on with this package? :-D

Thanks in advance,

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[Hin-Tak Leung]

--- On Thu, 12/2/09, Jelle de Jong <jelledejong@...> wrote:

> Hi Hin-Tak, could you provide some more information about
> the debian
> zd1211-firmware package versus the firmware package of the
> zd1211 project:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=129083&package_id=187875
>
> What are the differences, how it the development related?

I am not sure what are you asking - I thought the linuxwireless.org paragraph is fairly clear. There are 3 drivers for the zd1211/zd1211b devices,
and the 3 drivers requires two different formats of firmware. (the firmware content is logically the same, but presented differently).


     

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[Jelle de Jong]

Hin-Tak Leung wrote:

> --- On Thu, 12/2/09, Jelle de Jong <jelledejong@...> wrote:
>
>> Hi Hin-Tak, could you provide some more information about
>> the debian
>> zd1211-firmware package versus the firmware package of the
>> zd1211 project:
>> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=129083&package_id=187875
>>
>> What are the differences, how it the development related?
>
> I am not sure what are you asking - I thought the linuxwireless.org paragraph is fairly clear. There are 3 drivers for the zd1211/zd1211b devices,
> and the 3 drivers requires two different formats of firmware. (the firmware content is logically the same, but presented differently).
>

So far i understand this:

I want to use the community driver, have support on it, do testing and
create bug reports that are responded to.

When I plug-in a zd121x based device on a clean debian sid
installation it will say in dmesg it is missing firmware. The only
firmware for the zd121x i can find on debian is the zd1211-firware
package. After installing this some of my debices work and some do not
 I created bug reports for those that do not work.

If i read the following page correctly:
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/zd1211rw

This means that the debian zd1211-firware is firmware that is not
designed for the community driver that is used in the default debian
sid kernel ....? So using the zd1211-firware is actually wrong!

If I read it correctly i should use the below firmware:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=129083

With the community driver and the default debian kernel?

Is the community firmware not packaged in debian? Where can I find it
in debian and ubuntu?

Please make it as clear as possible how the situation is.

Thanks in advance for any info,

Best regards,

Jelle


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[Jelle de Jong]

Jelle de Jong wrote:

> Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
>> --- On Thu, 12/2/09, Jelle de Jong <jelledejong@...> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Hin-Tak, could you provide some more information about
>>> the debian
>>> zd1211-firmware package versus the firmware package of the
>>> zd1211 project:
>>> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=129083&package_id=187875
>>>
>>> What are the differences, how it the development related?
>> I am not sure what are you asking - I thought the linuxwireless.org paragraph is fairly clear. There are 3 drivers for the zd1211/zd1211b devices,
>> and the 3 drivers requires two different formats of firmware. (the firmware content is logically the same, but presented differently).
>>
>
> So far i understand this:
>
> I want to use the community driver, have support on it, do testing and
> create bug reports that are responded to.
>
> When I plug-in a zd121x based device on a clean debian sid
> installation it will say in dmesg it is missing firmware. The only
> firmware for the zd121x i can find on debian is the zd1211-firware
> package. After installing this some of my debices work and some do not
>  I created bug reports for those that do not work.
>
> If i read the following page correctly:
> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/zd1211rw
>
> This means that the debian zd1211-firware is firmware that is not
> designed for the community driver that is used in the default debian
> sid kernel ....? So using the zd1211-firware is actually wrong!
>
> If I read it correctly i should use the below firmware:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=129083
>
> With the community driver and the default debian kernel?
>
> Is the community firmware not packaged in debian? Where can I find it
> in debian and ubuntu?
>
> Please make it as clear as possible how the situation is.
>
> Thanks in advance for any info,
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jelle
>

I did some more research and tried to compare the Debian
zd1211-firmware package with the firmware that is tolled to use on the
wiki instead of the Debian package, but i cant find any difference in
file size or creation date. I am confused. Could somebody explain the
situation.. and what firmware should i use to get support?

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/zd1211rw#Firmware

"Firmware is pulled from userspace, get the files here.Debian users
beware: don't use the the zd1211-firmware package, as this is for
Debian's fork of the vendor-based driver"

and here is: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=129083

Both Debian package and sourceforge tar.gz seem to contain the same
firmware?

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.0K 2007-10-04 13:47 zd1211b_ub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.0K 2007-10-04 13:47 zd1211b_uph
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.0K 2007-10-04 13:47 zd1211b_uphm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.0K 2007-10-04 13:47 zd1211b_uphr
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.5K 2007-10-04 13:47 zd1211b_ur
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.0K 2007-10-04 13:47 zd1211_ub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.0K 2007-10-04 13:47 zd1211_uph
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.0K 2007-10-04 13:47 zd1211_uphm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.0K 2007-10-04 13:47 zd1211_uphr
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.5K 2007-10-04 13:47 zd1211_ur

Best regards,

Jelle

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[Redeye]

Hi Hin-Tak

 zd1211rw 1-1:1.0: couldn't load firmware. Error number -110

Thats all i could get from looking at that page. Where do i look for the error codes please.

Lastly, was there meant to be another url supplied? in reference to your last sentance.

Many Thanks,
 

Hin-Tak Leung wrote:

 read this entry about the
'Debian users beware: don't use the the zd1211-firmware package'

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/zd1211rw#Firmware

and the url for where to download the firmware packages.
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[Hin-Tak Leung]

--- On Wed, 18/2/09, Redeye <jonatmmpuk@...> wrote:

> Hi Hin-Tak
>
>  zd1211rw 1-1:1.0: couldn't load firmware. Error number
> -110
>
> Thats all i could get from looking at that page. Where do i
> look for the
> error codes please.
>
> Many Thanks,

-110 is timed out, possibly something to do with USB... do you have multiple host driver loaded (lsmod | grep 'hci'), etc? The firmware should be in /lib/firmware/zd1211/ , and should have permission 644.

There is also the possibility that the USB socket on your computer (assuming your zd1211 is external) is underpowered/off-spec. I think it would say so in dmesg in such case. (bus-powered devices sometimes draw too much electricity and requires a main-powered usb hub in the middle between your computer and the device to work). Somebody encountered such a problem:
http://www.nabble.com/Error-in-kernel-2.6.24-in-ubuntu-8.10-td17136583.html

BTW, it is ubuntu 8.10 (the 10 is for October release - there was an April 8.04 release), not 8.1.

BTW, I don't have anything to do with the rw driver - I use and fix up the vendor driver myself because I need AP mode. It does the job on the caveate that the vendor code is fairly 32-bit and also small-endian specific, and also the machine can lock up after 3-5 days. I am just listening in to the traffic to see when the rw driver provides AP mode...  


     

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Hi There Hin Tak,

Thanks for coming back.
uhci_hcd               30736  0
usbcore               149360  3 zd1211rw,uhci_hcd

I didnt know 8.10 meant october, thanks for the explanation :) I presume the 8, bit is the year then

I dont believe there to be anything wrong with the power although good thought.   The card was working fine in Winblows XP.

I have looked up about 644 permissions do i need to do a chmod and chown to that directory? Can i do this through nautilus?

Atm looking through nautilus, Owner is Root, Folder access is Create and delete and no permissions for file access.
Do i set the file access to read and write?

Sorry to ask, i dont want to cock up the files in the directory by granting read and write access.

Thanks again

Hin-Tak Leung wrote:

--- On Wed, 18/2/09, Redeye <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi Hin-Tak
>
>  zd1211rw 1-1:1.0: couldn't load firmware. Error number
> -110
>
> Thats all i could get from looking at that page. Where do i
> look for the
> error codes please.
>
> Many Thanks,

-110 is timed out, possibly something to do with USB... do you have multiple host driver loaded (lsmod | grep 'hci'), etc? The firmware should be in /lib/firmware/zd1211/ , and should have permission 644.

There is also the possibility that the USB socket on your computer (assuming your zd1211 is external) is underpowered/off-spec. I think it would say so in dmesg in such case. (bus-powered devices sometimes draw too much electricity and requires a main-powered usb hub in the middle between your computer and the device to work). Somebody encountered such a problem:
http://www.nabble.com/Error-in-kernel-2.6.24-in-ubuntu-8.10-td17136583.html

BTW, it is ubuntu 8.10 (the 10 is for October release - there was an April 8.04 release), not 8.1.

BTW, I don't have anything to do with the rw driver - I use and fix up the vendor driver myself because I need AP mode. It does the job on the caveate that the vendor code is fairly 32-bit and also small-endian specific, and also the machine can lock up after 3-5 days. I am just listening in to the traffic to see when the rw driver provides AP mode...  


     

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[Hin-Tak Leung]

--- On Thu, 19/2/09, Redeye <jonatmmpuk@...> wrote:

> I didnt know 8.10 meant october, thanks for the explanation
> :) I presume the
> 8, bit is the year then

Yes. Ubuntu are doing half-yearly releases <year>.<month>. HPLIP (printig driver) has a similiar release naming system - it was 1.x.y, then 2.<year>.<month> .

> I dont believe there to be anything wrong with the power
> although good
> thought.   The card was working fine in
> Winblows XP.

same machine dual boot? Otherwise the fact that it works in winxp is irrelevant.

> Atm looking through nautilus, Owner is Root, Folder access
> is Create and
> delete and no permissions for file access.
> Do i set the file access to read and write?

No you can't... Nautilus doesn't see to allow su/sudo...
 
> Sorry to ask, i dont want to cock up the files in the
> directory by granting
> read and write access.

644 is read-write for owner (root) and read-only for the rest of the world.






     

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[Redeye]

Yeh sorry same machine, completely flattened the xp partition, so its ubuntu only.

Do i use chmod and chown, if you could supply examples that would be great.
I was going to use
sudo chown -R 644 /lib/firmware/zd1211
sudo chmod 644 /lib/firmware/zd1211

is this the correct syntax?

Thanks again for your help, i wish i knew more about linux so i wasnt such a pain in the ass

Hin-Tak Leung wrote:

--- On Thu, 19/2/09, Redeye <[e-mail]> wrote:

> I didnt know 8.10 meant october, thanks for the explanation
> :) I presume the
> 8, bit is the year then

Yes. Ubuntu are doing half-yearly releases <year>.<month>. HPLIP (printig driver) has a similiar release naming system - it was 1.x.y, then 2.<year>.<month> .

> I dont believe there to be anything wrong with the power
> although good
> thought.   The card was working fine in
> Winblows XP.

same machine dual boot? Otherwise the fact that it works in winxp is irrelevant.

> Atm looking through nautilus, Owner is Root, Folder access
> is Create and
> delete and no permissions for file access.
> Do i set the file access to read and write?

No you can't... Nautilus doesn't see to allow su/sudo...
 
> Sorry to ask, i dont want to cock up the files in the
> directory by granting
> read and write access.

644 is read-write for owner (root) and read-only for the rest of the world.






     

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[Hin-Tak Leung]

--- On Thu, 19/2/09, Redeye <jonatmmpuk@...> wrote:

> Yeh sorry same machine, completely flattened the xp
> partition, so its ubuntu
> only.
>
> Do i use chmod and chown, if you could supply examples that
> would be great.
> I was going to use
> sudo chown -R 644 /lib/firmware/zd1211
> sudo chmod 644 /lib/firmware/zd1211
>
> is this the correct syntax?

no.

sudo chown -R root.root /lib/firmware/zd1211
sudo find /lib/firmware -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
sudo find /lib/firmware/zd1211 -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

(chown syntax is wrong; it is better to make sure all the directories are
readable as well - directory's 'execution' permission means one
can cd to it, nothing more, unlike file's execution permission).


     

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Hi again,

Thanks for suplying that, all actioned and ive still got the -110 error, so good try.  Must admit this is bugging the hell out of me, seems no one knows what the problem is.  I appreciate you trying considering your not one of the devs.  If you or anyone else has anymore ideas that would be great.

Do you know of a way i can get in touch with a dev? if we think we could be at a stage to do so?

Thanks again.

Hin-Tak Leung wrote:

--- On Thu, 19/2/09, Redeye <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Yeh sorry same machine, completely flattened the xp
> partition, so its ubuntu
> only.
>
> Do i use chmod and chown, if you could supply examples that
> would be great.
> I was going to use
> sudo chown -R 644 /lib/firmware/zd1211
> sudo chmod 644 /lib/firmware/zd1211
>
> is this the correct syntax?

no.

sudo chown -R root.root /lib/firmware/zd1211
sudo find /lib/firmware -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
sudo find /lib/firmware/zd1211 -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

(chown syntax is wrong; it is better to make sure all the directories are
readable as well - directory's 'execution' permission means one
can cd to it, nothing more, unlike file's execution permission).


     

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[Hin-Tak Leung]

--- On Thu, 19/2/09, Redeye <jonatmmpuk@...> wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> Thanks for suplying that, all actioned and ive still got
> the -110 error, so
> good try.  Must admit this is bugging the hell out of
> me, seems no one knows
> what the problem is.  I appreciate you trying
> considering your not one of
> the devs.  If you or anyone else has anymore ideas
> that would be great.

Well, my zd1211b worked out of the box with fedora... (as a client, but I needed it to work as AP on slackware, which is why I use the vendor driver instead, and which is unrelated).

Debian/Unbuntu seems to ship both the in-kernel driver and the community-based driver, which may be a source of conflict. Have you looked and make sure you do not have two zd1211 driver module entries, etc,
loaded in your lsmod,
and your dmesg? and make sure you have your blackmail list in order?

In your  /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist , you should have

blacklist zd1211
blacklist zd1211b

to disable the community driver. (the in-kernel driver is zd1211rw).
and you can disable the in-kernel driver by putting in an entry
"blacklist zd1211rw"

> Do you know of a way i can get in touch with a dev? if we
> think we could be
> at a stage to do so?

You could give the vendor driver or the community driver a try (there are 3 driver for zd1211). All the dev of zd1211rw is on this list, so if they are not responding, there isn't much to do.

The other options are to switch to fedora (because the John Linville, the kernel wireless maintainer, works for redhat, fedora is particularly strong for wireless networking in general), try compat-wireless (go to http://linuxwireless.org/), or post to the linuxwireless mailing list. (again linuxwireless.org). But so far your question/problem isn't quite the level for the linuxwireles mailing list yet. You probably should at least give compat-wireless a try - when you will probably learn some diagnostic tips on the way in doing so - before you ask questions there.



     

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[Redeye]

lsmod is only showing zd1211rw on its own, in mac80211 and in usb corem, which seem like the correct suspects to me.

Jut checked Dmesg and seen the zd1211rw driver loaded.. So Hold the phones i could be back in a sec with some absosmegginglutely fantastic news...

Just gona try a restart with my fingers and toes crossed!!

You sir could be a genius...

Back in a sec

Hin-Tak Leung wrote:

--- On Thu, 19/2/09, Redeye <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> Thanks for suplying that, all actioned and ive still got
> the -110 error, so
> good try.  Must admit this is bugging the hell out of
> me, seems no one knows
> what the problem is.  I appreciate you trying
> considering your not one of
> the devs.  If you or anyone else has anymore ideas
> that would be great.

Well, my zd1211b worked out of the box with fedora... (as a client, but I needed it to work as AP on slackware, which is why I use the vendor driver instead, and which is unrelated).

Debian/Unbuntu seems to ship both the in-kernel driver and the community-based driver, which may be a source of conflict. Have you looked and make sure you do not have two zd1211 driver module entries, etc,
loaded in your lsmod,
and your dmesg? and make sure you have your blackmail list in order?

In your  /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist , you should have

blacklist zd1211
blacklist zd1211b

to disable the community driver. (the in-kernel driver is zd1211rw).
and you can disable the in-kernel driver by putting in an entry
"blacklist zd1211rw"

> Do you know of a way i can get in touch with a dev? if we
> think we could be
> at a stage to do so?

You could give the vendor driver or the community driver a try (there are 3 driver for zd1211). All the dev of zd1211rw is on this list, so if they are not responding, there isn't much to do.

The other options are to switch to fedora (because the John Linville, the kernel wireless maintainer, works for redhat, fedora is particularly strong for wireless networking in general), try compat-wireless (go to http://linuxwireless.org/), or post to the linuxwireless mailing list. (again linuxwireless.org). But so far your question/problem isn't quite the level for the linuxwireles mailing list yet. You probably should at least give compat-wireless a try - when you will probably learn some diagnostic tips on the way in doing so - before you ask questions there.



     

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[Redeye]

WELL DONE Hin-Tak!!!

Your gut instinct on the permissions was obviously it, however it didn't show as i hadn't rebooted.

So Fantastic news, i will alter my first post with the fix and also change subject to solved.

My hat goes off to you sir, thanks for a good job well done.

All the best,

lsmod is only showing zd1211rw on its own, in mac80211 and in usb corem, which seem like the correct suspects to me.

Jut checked Dmesg and seen the zd1211rw driver loaded.. So Hold the phones i could be back in a sec with some absosmegginglutely fantastic news...

Just gona try a restart with my fingers and toes crossed!!

You sir could be a genius...

Back in a sec

Hin-Tak Leung wrote:

--- On Thu, 19/2/09, Redeye <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> Thanks for suplying that, all actioned and ive still got
> the -110 error, so
> good try.  Must admit this is bugging the hell out of
> me, seems no one knows
> what the problem is.  I appreciate you trying
> considering your not one of
> the devs.  If you or anyone else has anymore ideas
> that would be great.

Well, my zd1211b worked out of the box with fedora... (as a client, but I needed it to work as AP on slackware, which is why I use the vendor driver instead, and which is unrelated).

Debian/Unbuntu seems to ship both the in-kernel driver and the community-based driver, which may be a source of conflict. Have you looked and make sure you do not have two zd1211 driver module entries, etc,
loaded in your lsmod,
and your dmesg? and make sure you have your blackmail list in order?

In your  /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist , you should have

blacklist zd1211
blacklist zd1211b

to disable the community driver. (the in-kernel driver is zd1211rw).
and you can disable the in-kernel driver by putting in an entry
"blacklist zd1211rw"

> Do you know of a way i can get in touch with a dev? if we
> think we could be
> at a stage to do so?

You could give the vendor driver or the community driver a try (there are 3 driver for zd1211). All the dev of zd1211rw is on this list, so if they are not responding, there isn't much to do.

The other options are to switch to fedora (because the John Linville, the kernel wireless maintainer, works for redhat, fedora is particularly strong for wireless networking in general), try compat-wireless (go to http://linuxwireless.org/), or post to the linuxwireless mailing list. (again linuxwireless.org). But so far your question/problem isn't quite the level for the linuxwireles mailing list yet. You probably should at least give compat-wireless a try - when you will probably learn some diagnostic tips on the way in doing so - before you ask questions there.



     

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