Thanks for all the help so far, trying to configure my Zoom Air USB wireless
client 11MB. The Zoom Air uses the Intersil chipset so I am assuming it is
prism2. I have not got it working but found out more information:
YAST:
Yast lists the device as:
Class Unclassified device
Device identifier 210498
Vendor Intersil Corp
Vendor identifier: 199082
Now I assume that somewhere the vendor ID and device ID are used to look up
which driver to use, is this correct.
/var/messages/log
Looking the file I have notices that the following occurs at boot time
Sep 10 20:13:24 linux kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-2, assigned
address 3
Sep 10 20:13:24 linux kernel: usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x9aa/0x3642)
is not claimed by any active driver.
This appears to be the wireless lan being detect but unknown. I also notice
after this that the messages appear:
Sep 10 20:13:36 linux kernel: init_module: prism2_usb.o: 0.1.16-pre9 Loaded
Sep 10 20:13:36 linux kernel: init_module: dev_info is: prism2_usb
Sep 10 20:13:36 linux kernel: usb.c: registered new driver prism2_usb
Sep 10 20:13:36 linux insmod: Using
/lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB-athlon/wlan-ng/p80211.o
Sep 10 20:13:36 linux insmod: Symbol version prefix ''
Sep 10 20:13:36 linux insmod: Using
/lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB-athlon/wlan-ng/prism2_usb.o
So it does appear to be loading the right driver.
Now to my naive linux brain it seems that all I need to do is tie these two
together. Is this where modules.usbmap comes in I notice it have the
following lines:
# usb module match_flags idVendor idProduct bcdDevice_lo
bcdDevice_hi bDeviceClass bDeviceSubClass bDeviceProtocol bInterfaceClass
bInterfaceSubClass bInterfaceProtocol driver_info
prism2_usb 0x0003 0x09aa 0x3642 0x0000 0x0000
0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
0x00 0x0000ce00
So it does seem to know that this device requires a prism2_usb driver. So it
would seem to be down the config file. I have created a file in
/etc/sysconfig/network call ifcfg-wlan-usb but this does not seem to be
picked up by ifconfig or iwconfig. What does ifup do?
Many Thanks
Jon
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