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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: USB Wifi
From: "naturalwatt" <>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:14:18 -0000
I'm confused, Craig.

Earlier you asked about building on OSX for a 2.4.26 kernel on TS7250.  I sent 
you a toolchain.

Now you are talking about Debian - what kernel version?  2.6 or 2.4?

I have got the Iogear dongles working.  Yes you have to load the zd_b.o modules.

On the TS7250 with busybox installed (ie, not Debian) I create 
/etc/init.d/modules which contain the insmod commands I need and create a link 
to it from /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S05modules.

Since I am not using Debian, there is no interfaces file - it's a bit different.

Be warned - not all zd_b.o files are the same. There are several versions 
floating around even on the TS ftp site.

The one I used successfully with Busybox and 2.4.26-ts11 has size 312644 and 
md5sum 
ea5d1c980a6de67caac2a3fe4935fce5.

Where I got stuck was that DHCP didn't seem to play nicely with wlan0.  Maybe 
it was taking too long for the ssid to get established that udhcpc timed out.

--- In  "craignied" <> wrote:
>
> 
> ...and the worst part is, most of the time after
> 
> ifconfig wlan0 up
> 
> is issued, the system hangs.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea of how to get WiFi working on a TS-7200?
> 
> I found these instructions for WPA2 on the WiFiBox site:
> 
> 1) Bring the wlan0 interface up
>       * ifconfig wlan0 up
>  2) Generate a configuration file for wpa_supplicant to use
>       * wpa_passphrase the_essid the_password > 
> /etc/wpa_supplicant_custom.conf
>  3) Insert "proto=RSN" into "network" block in /etc/wpa_supplicant_custom.conf
>  4) Use wpa_supplicant to associate with AP and run it in the background (-B)
>       * wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -Dwext -c/etc/wpa_supplicant_custom.conf -B
>  5) Dynamically assign IP 
>       * udhcpc -i wlan0
> 
> The problem is, if I dont do insmod zd_b.o, I can't run ifconfig wlan0 up, 
> and once I do, then run ifconfig wlan0 up, it hangs.
> 
> Arrrrrgh!  Help!
> 
> Many TIA,
> Craig
> 
> Many TIA,
>




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