Hi, I have an Acer Aspire 3020 with integrated IEEE 801.11b/g wireless LAN. Recently I purchased an A-Link WL54USB WLAN adapter (USB), but cannot establish a connection to out wireless network. I have downloaded and compiled the kernel modules and the adapter can be configured by YaST (however, the adapter is recognised as an ethernet card...). 'iwconfig' finds the adapter, too, but the connection is not working (I have tried both 'ifup' and 'rcnetwork start [interface]'). My system is SL-OSS 10.0 with all updates. Two questions: 1) Has anyone of You experience with the adapter described above, especially how use it with SL-OSS 10.0? 2) I have my doubts about the compatibility of this WL54USB with SL 10.0. Could someone share his/her experience and give me a hint, which WLAN adapters are supported by and working well with SL-OSS-10.0. Thanks in advance, Kimmo
Hi! It would be helpful to know, which chipset your adapter uses. Do a "lsusb" as root. The lines look like this: Bus 007 Device 002: ID 0ace:1211 Some (I guess those which are known by your kernel) also have a name string at the end of the line. One of these lines identifies your USB adapter ... and usual the ID is sufficient to tell which chipset it uses. HTH, Andreas
Hi, Andreas Schallenberg wrote:
Hi!
It would be helpful to know, which chipset your adapter uses. Do a "lsusb" as root. The lines look like this:
Bus 007 Device 002: ID 0ace:1211
The chipset is zd1211 and USB ID 0ace:1211. Hope this helps. Kind regards, Kimmo
Hello! Am Donnerstag, 2. November 2006 12:11 schrieb K. Elo:
... The chipset is zd1211 and USB ID 0ace:1211. Hope this helps. ...
Well, I don't have an SUSE 10.0 here but the same stick. Mine is a FiberLine 430U but reports with the same ID. I use it with SuSE 9.3 here, but with an additional kernel module compiled locally. I use the GPL'ed drivers in revision 80 ("r80"). I had to Modify one line in the Makefile: ZD1211REV_B=1 There are at least an A and an B-version of the 1211 chip and mine had the B version. I also installed the firmware files. RU, Andreas
Am Donnerstag, 2. November 2006 12:11 schrieb K. Elo:
Hi,
Andreas Schallenberg wrote:
Hi!
It would be helpful to know, which chipset your adapter uses. Do a "lsusb" as root. The lines look like this:
Bus 007 Device 002: ID 0ace:1211
The chipset is zd1211 and USB ID 0ace:1211. Hope this helps.
If you didn't do it yet, visit: http://zd1211.ath.cx/ There are two different drivers. One is included in kernel 2.6.18. The other one you have to compile yourself. Works for me for SL 10.1 with kernel 2.6.16.21-0.25-default YaST does not recognise the usb-stick as wlan device, so you have to create a dummy config file, then change ifcfg-whatever-comes-here to ifcfg-wlan0 (see template in /etc/sysconfig/network). -- Üdvözlettel -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen, Marcel Hilzinger
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