Belkin Wireless G USB

Belkin Wireless G USB

[John Pierce]

Hello!

I just purchased a belkin wireless g usb adapter and am not having any
luck getting it to work.

The following is the output from various commands, if more info is
needed then I will post it back.

Distro: Fedora 7
Kernel: 2.6.22.4-65.fc7

I have created a ifcfg-wlan0 file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
with the following:

GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=wlan0
BOOTPROTO=static
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPADDR=192.168.1.60
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=yes
IPV6INIT=no
PEERDNS=yes
ESSID=thedungeon
CHANNEL=11
MODE=Managed
RATE=Auto
SECURITYMODE=open

I have a keys-wlan0 file in that same directory with the wep key for my router.

I set up a file named zd1211 in the /etc/modprobe.d/ directory with
the following in it.

alias wlan0 zd1211rw_mac80211

This is the output of dmesg immediately after inserting the usb adapter.

usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 2-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
wmaster0: Failed to select rate control algorithm
wmaster0: Failed to initialize rate control algorithm
usb 2-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
zd1211rw_mac80211: probe of 2-2:1.0 failed with error -2
usbcore: registered new interface driver zd1211rw_mac80211

This is the output of lsusb after inserting the adapter.

Bus 002 Device 007: ID 050d:705c Belkin Components
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 15d9:0a33
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

When I try the run ifup wlan0 this is the output.

zd1211rw_mac80211 device wlan0 does not seem to be present, delaying
initialization.

Every thing I have read indicates that this device is supported in
linux, including the vendor and device id.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.

-- 
John
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Re: Belkin Wireless G USB

[John W. Linville]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 03:10:34PM -0500, John Pierce wrote:

> This is the output of dmesg immediately after inserting the usb adapter.
> 
> usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
> usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> usb 2-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
> wmaster0: Failed to select rate control algorithm
> wmaster0: Failed to initialize rate control algorithm
> usb 2-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
> zd1211rw_mac80211: probe of 2-2:1.0 failed with error -2
> usbcore: registered new interface driver zd1211rw_mac80211

You may want to move this to bugzilla.redhat.com.

As a first check, did you install the zd1211-firmware package?

John
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John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com

Re: Belkin Wireless G USB

[John Pierce]

>
> As a first check, did you install the zd1211-firmware package?
>
Yes, I did indeed install the firmware.  I placed in in the
/lib/firmware/zd1211 directory as described in the readme, then I also
placed it in the /lib/firmware directory.

I will place this in the bugzilla on redhat.

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