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Lumune

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Registered: 2010-01-25

Posts: 5

[Solved] Need help to setup Wireless dongle, weird issue

Hi all,

I am having problem setting up my wireless dongle, I have searched the forum and tried google but I couldn't find anyone having the same issue as me. I am hoping someone could give me some suggestions to get it to work.

Although I have tried Linux on-and-off for quite a few year, it has only been a few weeks since I converted to use Linux on a daily bases, so please bear with me if I am asking/doing something stupid.

Now, the wireless dongle that I have is a PCI/Planex GW-US54GXS, it has a zd1211b chip and is supported by the zd1211rw driver according to this site http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drive … rw/devices.

I have install the zd1211-firmware 1.4-3, and I am running 2.6.32-ARCH kernel 32bit.

There is also a wireless module build-in on my mother-board:
01:07.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8180L 802.11b MAC (rev 20)
and I have unloaded the rtl8180 module, so that it would not cause any extra complications

When I plug in the wireless dongle (the dongle's led light comes on), dmesg gives me:

usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 1-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel'
zd1211rw 1-1:1.0: phy1
usbcore: registered new interface driver zd1211rw

and "lsmod | grep zd1211rw" gives:

zd1211rw               38473  0 
mac80211              149018  1 zd1211rw
cfg80211              106663  2 zd1211rw,mac80211
usbcore               118921  5 zd1211rw,usb_storage,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd

and "ifconfig wlan0" gives:

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX  
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

if i do "ifconfig wlan0 up" ( the led becomes off), dmesg gives:

usb 1-1: firmware: requesting zd1211/zd1211b_ub
usb 1-1: firmware: requesting zd1211/zd1211b_uphr
zd1211rw 1-1:1.0: firmware version 4725
zd1211rw 1-1:1.0: zd1211b chip 2019:5303 v4810 high 00-90-cc AL2230_RF pa0 ---N

but when I do "ifconfig", wlan0 is not on the list
and I could not find any errors in any of the logs in /var/log directory

If I do "ifconfig wlan0 up" again, it says "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Connection timed out"

I have googled for hours and since there is no explicit error, I couldn't find a solution
Any ideas?

Thanks in advanced

Last edited by Lumune (2010-01-25 22:40:04)

kgas

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From: Qatar

Registered: 2008-11-08

Posts: 718

Re: [Solved] Need help to setup Wireless dongle, weird issue

try this options as root. I could see that your dongle is detected and shown under ifconfig wlan0. Good luck

Lumune

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Registered: 2010-01-25

Posts: 5

Re: [Solved] Need help to setup Wireless dongle, weird issue

try this options as root. I could see that your dongle is detected and shown under ifconfig wlan0. Good luck

I did follow the guide and the other wireless setup guide to get my other wireless module to work.
But the problem with the dongle is that "ifconfig wlan0 up" does not bring the wlan0 to active, so I could not even do "iwlist wlan0 scan" because the interface is still down.

Is there any other place that I could look into for errors, other than in /var/log?
Thanks

Lumune

Member

Registered: 2010-01-25

Posts: 5

Re: [Solved] Need help to setup Wireless dongle, weird issue

I gave up on z1211rw module and tried to use ndiswrapper and it works
marked "Solved"