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[ts-7000] Re: USB WIFI driver

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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: USB WIFI driver
From: "ilinsdell" <>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:26:04 -0000
--- In  "ilinsdell" <> wrote:
>
> --- In  "weikmeier" <weikmeier@> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I´m working with the TS-7400 (booting 2.86 version) and I have
> > installed the zd.o and also the zdb.o drivers to configure and
bring
> > up my usb 2.0 WIFI IOGEAR adapter. However I always receive the
> > following error during boot:
> > >Configuring network interfaces...SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> > >     wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> > >     SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
> > >     SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device
> > >     wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> > >     wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> > >     Failed to bring up wlan0.
> >
> > Any idea about how to proceed to make this work?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Wolfgang
> >
>
> I had this exact same error, unfortunatly it was about 4 months ago
> and I cannot remeber exactly what the cause was as when I was
setting
> up wireless as I got a bunch of different errors until I finally
got
> it working.
>
> I think this one was due to using zd.o with a Zydas 1211b chipset.
>
> you may want to check the serial on your wireless chipset. If it
> turnes out that you have the b chipset, use zdb.o instead.
>
> One other issue I had was when using DHCP with a particular version
> of the kernel so make sure you have the latest as I think it was
> Micheal from TS that fixed this for me and updated the latest ts11
> kernel. This was not an issue with static IP so to check it out you
> could just change your settings to static and look for the error.
>

P.S. One more issue I found is that the zd and zdb drivers for linux
2.4 have a bug which causes it to unload without error if anything
cat's /proc/bus/usb, aparently Zydas are not going to fix this in the
2.4 driver but have fixed it in the 2. drivers.




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