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ipeters61

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From: Connecticut

Registered: 2012-02-18

Posts: 15

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Error Involving ZD1211 Wireless Driver

I was trying to install Arch on my HP Pavilion 742c today and I ran into a predicament with the wireless card.  I downloaded the zd1211 package off the Arch website, placed it on a flash drive, mounted it, and ran 'pacman -U zd1211*', which proceeded to install the firmware.  I went to setup and everything went fine until network configuration (after installing the firmware, I ran iwconfig to setup wireless).  The wireless card is a Belkin FD7050 based on a zd1211 chip.

Error at bottom of screen during setup:

usb 1-4: Could not load firmware file zd1211/zd1211b_ub.  Error number -2
zd1211rw 1-4:1.0: couldn't load firmware.  Error number -2

Setup references looking at tty7 for error details, and this is what I see (from network configuration forward):

dia_ask_option: ANSWER_OPTION: wlan0, returncode (skip/cancel): 0 (Interface selection)
disk_ask_yesno: User picked YES
inform: Please wait.  Polling for DHCP server on wlan0...
dhcpcd: dhcpcd not running
dhcpcd: version 5.2.12 starting
dhcpcd: wlan0: up_interface: No such file or directory
dhcpcd: wlan0: waiting for carrier
dhcpcd: timed out
show_warning 'Dhcpcd problem': Failed to run dhcpcd.  See /dev/tty7 for details. (msg)

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My Arch Systems:
Dell Studio 1555, Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz, 4 GB DDR2 Memory, 500 GB Hard Drive, Intel 4 Series Graphics
HP Pavilion 742c, Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz, 1.25 GB DDR Memory, 40 GB Hard Drive, Intel 845 Graphics
HP Omnibook XE3, Intel Pentium III-M 1.06 GHz, 640 MB PC133 Memory, 20 GB Hard Drive, Intel 830 Graphics

carukia

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From: ~/United_Kingdom/Liverpool

Registered: 2011-05-15

Posts: 162

Re: Error Involving ZD1211 Wireless Driver

Have you loaded the kernal module for your wireless driver. See this wiki page

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ipeters61

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From: Connecticut

Registered: 2012-02-18

Posts: 15

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Re: Error Involving ZD1211 Wireless Driver

Sorry for my delay in responding.  I've been very busy recently.

Anyways, I went back and tried to run "modprobe -r zd1211rw," reconfigured the wireless in iwconfig and tried running dhcpcd.

I receive the same error message.

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My Arch Systems:
Dell Studio 1555, Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz, 4 GB DDR2 Memory, 500 GB Hard Drive, Intel 4 Series Graphics
HP Pavilion 742c, Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz, 1.25 GB DDR Memory, 40 GB Hard Drive, Intel 845 Graphics
HP Omnibook XE3, Intel Pentium III-M 1.06 GHz, 640 MB PC133 Memory, 20 GB Hard Drive, Intel 830 Graphics

ipeters61

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From: Connecticut

Registered: 2012-02-18

Posts: 15

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Re: Error Involving ZD1211 Wireless Driver

Okay, so I extracted the firmware's tar.xz file and copied the data into /lib/firmware.  I ran dhcpcd after that, and now it just claims that no interfaces have a carrier...

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My Arch Systems:
Dell Studio 1555, Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz, 4 GB DDR2 Memory, 500 GB Hard Drive, Intel 4 Series Graphics
HP Pavilion 742c, Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz, 1.25 GB DDR Memory, 40 GB Hard Drive, Intel 845 Graphics
HP Omnibook XE3, Intel Pentium III-M 1.06 GHz, 640 MB PC133 Memory, 20 GB Hard Drive, Intel 830 Graphics