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  1. Bug #68706
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 68706

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vonHalenbach (lustik) wrote :

Here is the output of dmesg from a zd1211b USB-Wlan Stick:

[23120.712000] usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
[23120.880000] usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[23121.084000] zd1211rw 1-2:1.0: firmware version 4725
[23121.148000] zd1211rw 1-2:1.0: zd1211b chip 1582:6003 v4810 full 00-11-f6 AL2230_RF pa0 g--N
[23121.156000] zd1211rw 1-2:1.0: eth1
[23121.728000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
stefan@cipy:~$

On the site of the development from the zd1211rw driver they say that the chip with b at the end. (zd1211b) is a bit different and needs its driver compiled differently, to work correct. Is it possible to make a different kernel-module for this chip? I am using a testing snapshot of Feisty. Kernel:
stefan@cipy:~$ uname -a
Linux cipy 2.6.20-12-generic #2 SMP Sun Mar 18 03:07:14 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux