1. Introduction:
Because more and more people install the Linux operating system in the desktop and
notebook, we provide the Linux solution of our ZD1211 802.11b+g Wireless LAN Card.
ZD1211 provides 802.11 b+g wireless solution for USB interface. In our ZD1211
solution, we can run in the Infrastructure (Managed), Ad-hoc or AP (Master) modes. One
can easily change these modes. This document is intended to describe how to setup and
how to use ZD1211 under the Linux operating system.
2.1 Requirements:
1.
Kernel 2.4+ . The driver had success built in Redhat9, Fedora Core2,3 ,and Debian
3.1. You can easily build it without any problem
2.
To build zd1211 you will need: Configured kernel source code for the kernel you are
running. Ideally, Configured means that you have at least run 'make config', 'make
enuconfig', or 'make xconfig'. If your platform is not SMP system, please don't
config SMP supported, because when module loaded, this will make unresolved
symbol.
3.
Make sure your kernel usb 2.0 support is running
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Use lsmod to check "ehci-hcd" module is loaded.
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If host is not support usb 2.0, zd1211 will run under pure-b mode.
2.
Building the device driver:
In this section, we will describe how to build our ZD1211 Linux driver under the Linux
operating system.
2.1 Uncompress the package:
tar zxvf ZD1211LnxDrv_xxxx.tar.gz (where xxxx is the version number, such as
2_0_0_0)
The first thing one should do is uncompress this package by tar. After untar this package,
you can see the source files. One should change directory into this directory for
proceeding the next step.
2.2 Build and install the package:
The package contains drivers for ZD1211 and ZD1211B. If you doesn’t have specified
request, both of them will be installed.
Under the extracted directory, there is a Makefile in it. Because our driver can support for
kernel 2.4 and kernel 2.6, there are two sets of rule in the Makefile. One has to modify
the Makefile according to the path of
“kernel source tree”
and the version of the kernel
in your system. In the Makefile, you may see the following statements,
# if the kernel is 2.6.x, turn on this
#KERN_26=y
#KERNEL_SOURCE=/usr/src/linux-2.6.7
# if the kernel is 2.4.x, turn on this
KERN_24=y
KERNEL_SOURCE=/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8
