Following up to an old post of mine : It seems the recent(ish, ~2 weeks ago) commits to zyd(4) have fixed the issue described below. At least, I'm currently downloading the latest snapshot install.iso and it's working just fine, no more errors like below. Thanks, Damien !
Cheers, Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 05:11:04PM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: | Hi all, | | Today I stumbled across a dirt cheap (~6 EUR) wireless + bluetooth | combo USB device. Turns out the wireless part is supported (it's a | zyd(4)) : | | uhub3 at uhub0 port 1 "Genesys Logic USB2.0 Hub" rev 2.00/6.0b addr 2 | zyd0 at uhub3 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 "ZyDAS USB2.0 WLAN" rev 2.00/43 .30 addr 3 | ubt0 at uhub3 port 4 "SiW SiW" rev 1.10/15.00 addr 4 | zyd0: HMAC ZD1211, FW 46.05, RF RFMD, PA 0, address 00:11:f6:7e:fe:d8 | | However, when using the card I get lots of these : | | zyd0: xfer too short (length=22) | zyd0: frame too short (length=22) | zyd0: frame too short (length=4) | zyd0: xfer too short (length=8) | zyd0: xfer too short (length=24) | zyd0: xfer too short (length=11) | zyd0: xfer too short (length=6) | | etc. | | This errormessage is not described in the manpage and looking at the | source, all I see is that they're generated when receiving frames. | (zyd_rxeof and zyd_rx_data). Rate of error seems to be correlated to | the load on the nic, but not completely. Could this be a faulty nic | (maybe the reason why it's so damn cheap) or is something else going | on ? | | If anybody is interested, I could send one of these their way. | | Cheers, | | Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd | | -- | >++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ | +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] | http://www.weirdnet.nl/ -- >++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/
