donde wrote:Looking at the ZyDAS site...
donde, I don't know that I'ld be getting the latest drivers from their site any more. Atheros apparently just bought them out a few days ago, and the ZyDAS site is now a mirror of the Atheros site. There is no information for the ZYDAS products, the old download links are now broken, and the new URLs have been changed and pretty much hidden.
(To get there, click "Products & Technology", scroll down to the bottom of the links on the left and then click -
"Taiwan Research & Development Center", then click "Downloads".)
My understanding is that while the original Linux driver was contributed by ZyDAS, the ZD1211 driver is being actively maintained by the open source community -
http://zd1211.ath.cx
and the download page at -
http://zd1211.ath.cx/download/
A quick check confirmed that the most recent files contained in the driver on the ZyDAS site are several months older than the latest version (r83) found at the link above.
These same folks are also working on a complete rewrite of a new, improved Linux driver, called ZD1211rw, see -
http://zd1211.ath.cx/wiki/DriverRewrite
They gave a short presentation about this at the Linux Wireless developers summit, see -
http://www.deine-taler.de/zd1211/zd1211-wisu.pdf
Which says, among other things, that...
"Zydas was not capable of writing a decent driver"
Their new rewrite version has now been included in the official mainline Linux kernals as of 2.6.18-rc1.
Unfortunately, they are not providing backwards compability for the older kernals, and I think Puppy is still a few versions behind that?
donde wrote:I'm using the AirLink AWLL3026 wireless adapter...
As indicated on that site, there are different versions of the AirLink 101 AWLL3026 with different USB ID's, some (mine) require the 1211 driver, others the 1211b.
donde wrote:...but done so in 2.01r2...
That works great for me as well, using the previous Puppy drivers tempestuous was kind enough to provide, I just can't get 2.02 to work!
The only ZD1211 driver that I could find for 2.02 was provided by kirk, who for some reason included only the ZD1211b version and not the ZD1211!
donde wrote:...Went back from 2.02 because other issues.
What other issues were you having with 2.02? If there are good reasons to avoid 2.02 for now and just use 2.01r2, I would be interested in hearing about them!
MU wrote:We have renamed the folders on the server, to avoid confusion about different Puppyversions.
If you try to download a file, and it is not available, go here and search in the subfolders:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Wifi
Mark, I looked there, but I could find no distinction between the completely incompatible Puppy V2.01 vs V2.02 drivers, just a generic directory called "drivers-for-Puppy-2".
Spindoctor wrote:I just tried to use the bcm43xx-devicescape driver with my Belkin F5D7011 PCMCIA-Card.
It doesn't actually work...
It says...
Invalid module format
Mark, apparently I'm not the only one still confused. Spindoctor, did you download that driver from the site Mark mentioned above? I'm just guessing, but I suspect that the reason for the error message may be that the driver you downloaded is not compatible with the current version of Puppy?
Are any of these drivers compatible with the current version of Puppy?
Where do I need to go to get a Puppy ZD1211 driver that works with V2.02?