Atheros Usb wifi dongle support

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stev0
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Atheros Usb wifi dongle support

#1 Post by stev0 »

I have an atheros wifi dongle - ZD1211

Im guessing this usb dongle wifi adapter is not supported.

Is there a way to get this going? ndiswrapper?


Thanx 8)

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#2 Post by sidders »

Have a look at this post Extras for puppy 3 and 4
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=22245

There is a PET posted by Tem[ptestous

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#3 Post by stev0 »

i seemed to have underestimated the power of this puppy .. No pun..


plugged in... worked right out of the box!


im really impressed.

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zd1211bu driver - work with this .pet

#5 Post by stiginge »

I've tried to get puppy to work with a dongle which uses the .sys driver in subject line, to no avail. I'm wondering if it will work with the pet package linked to above?

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#6 Post by sidders »

Which Puppy are you using?.
You could give i a whirl. If it doesnt work, uninstall the pet.

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#7 Post by stiginge »

Have tried the pet package linked above...no success. Package manager tells me its installed and reboot, which I've done.

At this point I have also tried -

zd1211rw module in network wizard...no success

ndiswrapper with the windows .inf driver supplied with adapter...no success

Looks like a new puppy module for this driver might need doing...zd1211bu.inf

bill
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cranky USB access

#8 Post by bill »

Hello men,You may want to have a look at the website below,It may help you.By the way ,be cognizant of youir kernel version which can be shown
in console with uname -r

http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wl ... taller.php

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#9 Post by stiginge »

Righteo, will have a look, cheers for that

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zd1211bu module

#10 Post by stiginge »

Anyone fancy a go at making this one for puppy? Or anyone even come across this windows driver before?

I don't really fancy that having extra software, prefer to get something without placing additional software on computer.

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#11 Post by belfasteddie »

I use this device and it runs perfect with several versions.
I run 4.2.
Mine is ZD1211b. NB.ver "b".
It has also run under, Suse, Slitaz and several other versions of Linux.

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#12 Post by stiginge »

I've tried linuxant as well, and you must have linux os when downloading, cannot download in windows from what i could see.

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