--- In "bburtan65" <> wrote:
>
> Ad-hoc does work under Debian. Of course I should really set it up for DHCP
> but that's another can of worms.
I went through this same thing, although I use a different USB wifi dongle with
the same zd1211b chipset. The conclusion I reached was that the driver TS
provides does not support Ad-Hoc mode. And yes, you're right--I couldn't get
much of the iwconfig stuff to work either.
There is a solution, though. You need to compile the driver that Zydas provides
instead. It supports Ad-Hoc mode for sure, although I'm not sure about the
other iwconfig options.
http://zd1211.wiki.sourceforge.net/VendorDriver
Download driver version 2.22.0.0. You will need to compile this, either with a
cross compiler or directly on the TS board. You have to edit the Makefile to
point to the kernel source (you can download it from TS's website). I can't
remember if you need to compile the kernel first or not. If you're cross
compiling, you might have to make other minor tweaks to the Makefile. I had to
force KERN_VER=2.4 in the Makefile to compile for kernel 2.4 because by default
it runs a command on the local system to determine whether to compile for
kernel 2.4 or 2.6.
Once you've got it compiled, you should end up with a file called zd1211b.o.
insmod it like you did before, and at that point at least the Ad-Hoc stuff
should work. I haven't verified the other commands. The network interface it
creates will probably be called eth1.
My experience has been that this Zydas driver works very well.
Doug
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