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Wireless Network Driver for ZyDAS ZD1211 802.11b/g USB Chipset (zyd)

The zyd driver has been integrated into snv107. For snv107 and later builds, please use the integrated driver. Both WEP and WPA are supported.

The driver is contributed by the students group of Charles University in Prague.

The driver is based on source code from OpenBSD, and is provided under the same BSD-type License.

Links

• Source Code package (v0.1)

Note that v0.1 doesn't support WEP and WPA.

Note that there is a version enhanced by community developers to support ZD1211b chipset, see their website

Requirements

Before downloading the source, please make sure that your system meets the following requirements:

• Solaris Nevada build
• ZyDAS ZD1211 chipsets based wireless 802.11g devices.

Vendor	Product	USB Vendor	USB Product
3COM	3CRUSB10075	6891	a727
A-LINK	WL54USB	0ace	1211
Abocom	WUG2670	07b8	6001
AOpen	802.11g WL54	07b8	6001
Acer	WLAN-G-US1	0ace	1211
Airlink 101	AWLL3025V2	0ace	1211
Airlink 101	AWLL3026	0ace	1211
Airlink+	AWLL3025	0ace	1211
Allnet	ALLSPOT Hotspot-Finder a/b/g	157e	3204
AmbiCom	WL54-USB	0ace	1211
Asus	WL-159g	0b05	170c
Aztech	Wireless G WL630USB	07b8	6001
GigaFast	WF748-CUI	0ace	1211
Linksys	WUSBF54G	13b1	001e
Sagem	XG760A	079b	004a
Zyxel	ZyAIR G-200v2	0586	3407

How to use

Download the source code, then build the binaries, you need a OpenSolaris source code workspace:

# wget http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/downloads/zyd-0.1-src.tar.gz
# gzip -dc zyd-0.1-src.tar.gz | tar xvf -
# cd zyd-0.1/src
# vi Makefile —> modify the: GATE=/your_workspace,  ISA=i386/AMD64
# gmake all; gmake install

Add your driver:

# add_drv -n -i '"usbace,1211"' zyd

You may have different cards, so please change it to your '"usbvendor_id,product_id"'

You should be able to plumb the interface:

# ifconfig zyd0 plumb

If plumbing failed, your card may be not supported or just not getting properly identified by the Solaris kernel. Send us a note and we'll try to help.

If you don't use WEP and want to connect to whatever WLAN available, then all that's left to do is starting dhcp:

# ifconfig zyd0 dhcp

If you need to connect to specific WLAN, you'll need the following commands:

# dladm scan-wifi zyd0
# dladm connect-wifi -e essid zyd0
# ifconfig zyd0 dhcp

Notes

This is work in progress. Please send your questions and comments to laptop-discuss@opensolaris.org discussion forum.