Hi!!! I have this device, and I spect will try to develope the driver, but
if you have some work done, we can collaborate. Thanks!!

On Jan 2, 2008 9:59 AM, Ben Taylor <sol11x86 at comcast.net> wrote:

> I managed to get a USB Wifi-G device that was not
> supported by the zyd-0.1 driver.  (There are several
> devices which have both zd1211 and zd1211b parts
> and I ended up getting a zd1211b part).
>
> Over the holidays, I started taking a whack at the
> driver, using the current openbsd cvs code as
> reference and eventually made some progress.
> Another alpha tester said good things that he
> was able scan AP, so that's good news.  I really
> didn't start making progress until I moved to a
> Nevada B75a system and then things got better.
> I forward ported a good portion of the radio init
> and channel switching code for all the supported
> radios from openbsd cvs, and then tried some
> fine tuning.  WEP, multicast and Promiscimous
> mode are still not supported yet.
>
> The good news?  I can do basic wificonfig commands
> to my zd1211b device, and plumb it.  Scan's come
> back but nothing is found (and I know that there are
> several AP's in my area), and DHCP'ing an address
> isn't working, probably cause it can't see an AP that
> isn't WEP enabled. (BTW, the same
> code compiled on Build 61 hard hangs, so expect
> to use a relatively recent version of Nevada.  You ask
> why I was - B61 is on the desk, Build75 is way under
> the table and getting the USB key in and out is not
> fun).
>
> I can make available the code to anyone who wants
> to test.  I make no warranties about the code, most of
> it I can't test because I don't have the devices, but
> all of the radio init, channel select and radio on/off
> is very similar so I figure it has a good chance of
> working out of the gate.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Ben
>
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