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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: USB WIFI driver
From: "naturalwatt" <>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:30:24 -0000
--- In  "Gonzalo A. de la Vega" <> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:19 PM, weikmeier <> wrote:
> >
> > --- In  "Gonzalo A. de la Vega"
> >  <gadelavega@> wrote:
> >
> >
> >  >
> >  > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:04 PM, 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?
> >  >
> >  > It would seem that the modules is not loaded. How are you loading it?
> >  >
> >  Gonzalo,
> >  First I am double checking if any module is installed (lsmod), Then I
> >  remove the zd installed. After that I installed zd.o using insmod
> >  zd.o. Looking again (lsmod) I saw that it was installed.
> >  Anythink wrong here? Need I load it with another command?
>
> Ususally when you try something manually and works, and the it doesn't
> work automatically, the problem is timing. Try adding some delays
> after loading the module and bringing up the interface.
>

I agree about timing.  There is a delay after creating the interface, for 
wireless only.  I had
to add a 5 second delay into /etc/rc.d/init.d/network after the ifconfig wlan0 
and the
udhcp line.

Martin




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