Re: Success story : 802.11g on ibook
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 11:18:23PM +0200, Yannick Roehlly wrote:
> Good evening! (at least in France)
>
> I've been searching for a zydas zd1201 based 802.11b device for a long time.
> In vain...
As a sidenote, 802.11b at76c503a based chips are working wonderfully. I'm
using the berlios driver for over a year without major headaches
(including WEP "encryption"). "iwlist scan" has some minor issues, but
that's it. But you probably ment 802.11g above.
Cheers,
-- Guido
>
> This afternoon, I decided to buy a Trendnet TEW-424UB which is base on
> zd1211 chipset, chipset for which a free driver exists at
> http://zd1211.sourceforge.net/. I was not sure if it would work, but the
> device is quite cheap (29€) and I really wanted to have wifi under
> GNU/Linux on my ibook.
>
> Alleluhia, the cvs driver from sourceforge works on linux PPC (kernel
> 2.6.12-rc3). wlan0 configuration in /etc/network/interfaces and in ifplugd
> (via dpkg-reconfigure) and now when I plug the device in, wlan0 rise up.
>
> Not eveything is wonderfull: no encryption, computer freezes if I want to
> suspend it to ram while the device is plugged; but it works.
>
> Yannick
>
>
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