WLAN auf suse 8.2 - wie einrichten?

[<Grisu>]

Hallo,

Hab Suse 8.2 installiert. So weit so gut. Mein WLAN USB Adapter wird nicht erkannt:

Draytek Vigor 510

Treiber gibt es keine, aber ich hab in einem Forum gelesen, dass der Adapter wohl als eth-usb läuft. Ist alles ein bisschen anders als in Win. Installiert hab ich, so wie ich das sehen ein eth-usb gerät. Nur kann ich keinen Kontakt zu meinem Router aufnehmen, der auch gleichzeitig DSL-Modem innehat.

Trotzdem steht da immer noch ein "Anderes Gerät" .....

Vll. weiss ja jemand Rat.

Und falls jemand bescheid weiss - schritt für schritt erklären ;)

[ActionNews]

Hallo!

Ich hab zwar keine Erfahrung mit WLAN, aber dein Modem scheint unter SuSE 8.2 zu laufen. Schau mal hier: http://www.linux-community.de/Neues/story?storyid=9689 ! Vorallem der letzte Beitrag scheint vielversprechend zu sein. Vielleicht kannst du sie mal anmailen :)!

CU ActionNews

[<Grisu>]

Hatte ich schon versucht ;) und bisher noch keine Antwort bekommen - deshalb men Post hier.

Ich steig bisher noch nicht so recht durch ... was soll das mit Kernel compilieren etc etc etc ...??

Kann mir jemand 'ne DAU Seite zu Linux empfehlen wo alles von Anfang an erklärt und erläutert wird?

NIcht, dass ich mit Rechnern nichts am Hut hätte, angefangen hab ich mit 'nem 8088 anno 1986 und DOS .... ist aber was ganz anderes mit Linux ... :]

[<Grisu>]

Hier mal die Anleitung des Wlan Treibers:

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* Open-Source wireless driver for TI ACX100 chipset *
*******************************************************************************


Let us first mention that this driver is supposed to support every card
with ACX100 chip (except for USB implementations, which are extremely rare).
If it doesn't work for your ACX100 card, then please notify us
immediately if you followed every installation advice and are at your
wits end as to what might still make the card fail.

--- REQUIREMENTS ---

Relatively recent Linux kernel 2.4.x (2.5.x/2.6.x experimental),
with CONFIG_NET_RADIO enabled ("Wireless LAN") and CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS,
for wireless extensions (iwconfig etc.).

Next, a firmware is needed. We cannot ship this with our driver, so you
will have to get it elsewhere. There are two option: you have a windows
driver installed or have a zip file with all the necesary windows files
in it (for example D-Link installer), or you have a binary linux driver.

The firmware used by windows driver consists of several files normally
named WLANGEN.BIN, RADIO0d.BIN and RADIO11.BIN which can be found in
windows/system32, or in the install archive. Place these files in the
firmware directory, and you are ready to roll.

Another option is a binary Linux driver. Several drivers are available
on the internet, and they all seem to work. But the firmware is embedded
in the binary driver, and so needs to be extracted. Place the driver in
the firmware directory and make sure it is called acx100_pci.o. Then
run 'make extract_firmware', and you are set. Make sure that no radio
modules (RADIO*.BIN) files are placed in the firmware directory when
using a linux firmware, otherwise the driver will attempt to load and
initialise the radio module for your card again, with unpredictable results.
The linux driver already has the radio module embedded in the firmware.
The firmware version this Linux driver contains is 1.5.0, as printed during
our driver initialisation.

Certain DWL-650+ and 520+ cards and Planet cards use a Maxim radio instead of
the usual RFMD, so these cards will not work with the linux driver firmware
and so the windows firmware must be used.

Note that earlier versions of the windows driver shipped with individual radio
files as well as combined versions. Here you have a choice, you can either
copy the individual files over (which will need to be renamed) or use the
combined file on it's own. If you copy the combined file it must be renamed
to "WLANGEN.BIN".

The files in the recent driver package are:
WLANGEN.BIN - Generic firmware
RADIO0d.BIN - Maxim radio module
RADIO11.BIN - RFMD radio module

The files in earlier packages are:
APLUSGEN.BIN - Generic firmware
AIRPLUS.BIN - Firmware with embedded RFMD module
APLUSMX.BIN - Firmware with embedded Maxim module
APLUSRFM.BIN - RFMD radio module
APLUSRMX.BIN - Maxim radio module

You may tell us about your experiences with various firmware versions on
our Wiki page FirmwareExperiences.

--- "NORMAL" INSTALLATION ---

This is the usual installation on Linux 2.4.x.

For installation, you have two choices:

The fast way:
Just run "make" in the main directory, and your driver will be ready
in a second. It is located in src/acx100_pci.o .

In case the build fails, then please make sure that the symbolic link
/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build exists and points to the matching
kernel source directory. Now copy /boot/vmlinuz.version.h to
/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include/linux/version.h

The slow way:
Type "make config" in the main directory to cause some configuration
settings to be checked.
Then you type "make driver". This will compile a driver for
Linux 2.4.x (2.5.x does NOT work correctly yet, but we're working on it).

No install option has yet been provided (because the driver is still a bit
experimental anyway :)

The module can be loaded e.g. like:
insmod src/acx100_pci.o firmware_dir=firmware

Debugging/logging options can be changed in a pretty powerful way by setting
the module's "debug" parameter and/or its preinitialisation value in
acx100.c and/or via the iwpriv set_debug setting. A good default value
after having managed to get the driver to run would be 0xb
(L_STD|L_INIT|L_ASSOC).

To run the driver, you can use the script scripts/start_net (and adapt it).

--- "CRAZY" INSTALLATION ---

What, you really intend to use the driver on Linux 2.5.x/2.6.x??

OK, if you really want to do that, then do:

1. create drivers/net/wireless/acx100 in your 2.6 source tree
2. copy all .c from acx100/src and all .h from acx100.include into
drivers/net/wireless/acx100 (DO NOT copy any Makefiles)
3. apply the patch from
http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~aschultz/acx100/linux-2.6.0-test1-acx100-A0.diff
to adjust/create the Makefiles
(this may fail for versions other than 2.6.0-test1, of course, so you may
need to adapt it...)
4. build your kernel and enjoy acx100 with linux-2.6 ;-)

--- STATUS ---

Currently this driver is an ALPHA RELEASE only!! Working at the moment:
Ad-Hoc mode without WEP, Managed (infrastructure) mode plus WEP.
We're not sure about the status of WEP support in Ad-Hoc mode.
Furthermore, associating with some access points might still be problematic
due to very strict checks in their firmware.
Many other things haven't been tested (properly) yet.
Skillful testers and BSD driver writers welcome!!
There is a free download of the 802.11b spec at
http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/

--- TROUBLESHOOTING / WORKAROUNDS ---

First, make absolutely sure you're using the correct settings for
associating to the wireless network!
It's of no use to try to associate to a set of access points using
Ad-Hoc mode, or maybe the other way around (to use Managed mode to
associate with a peer card).
Then read the file containing the driver log (the file where
the KERN_WARNING channel gets written to), as given in the syslog
configuration, /etc/sysklogd.conf or similar.
We tried to make the driver log as dumbed down as possible to make sure
even casual users are able to follow the network association steps
towards the final successful association.
When trying to use NFS, use options 'rsize=1024,wsize=1024' in /etc/fstab .

If you still have trouble getting a connection, or if the connection is
problematic, then visit our Wiki HOWTO/troubleshooting pages for more
info.

--- BUGS / PATCHES ---

Automatic rate adaptation is not implemented yet
(setting rate to 22M will prevent communication with 11M peers).
We'll have to implement auto rate adaptation properly soon.
Many advanced features are not implemented yet.
For current tasks, please read TODO.

If you manage to fix or implement something, then please immediately
send patches for inclusion to the acx100-devel@lists.sf.net mailing list.

************************* !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *************************
NOTE that by sending us patches, you implicitly accept that we also publish
them in BSD licensed form eventually, since we want to keep this driver
functionality usable by BSD systems and we assume that you've read this note
about patch submission in this main README file that everybody is
supposed to read before making use of our project (and projects in general!).
If you don't want to accept this implicit licensing, then please make
sure to let us know which code parts are not supposed to be used by BSD
systems. Thanks!
************************* !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *************************

--- AND FINALLY... ---

Let me mention that we REALLY dislike the way very stupid hardware vendors
name their cards containing DIFFERENT chipsets!!

One of these vendors is SpeedStream/Siemens: a card that uses the same
name "SS1021" is available in both Orinoco chip and ACX100 chip versions.

Another one is D-Link: they have "DWL-650" and "DWL-650+".
"DWL-650+" is simply an improved version of the "DWL-650", right?
WRONG!
The standard versions use Prism2.5, whereas the "+" versions use ACX100
chipset. Good luck in finding a (correct) driver!!
And it's even WORSE: I just found out that there is some newer
version of the "DWL-650" out that also contains the ACX100
(it uses the same hardware as the "+" versions).
This BRAINDEAD STUPIDITY in device naming easily entitles D-Link
for the "Most Braindead Hardware Vendor 2003" award. And of course
they were also talking about developing another Linux driver for some time,
without any results (although I guess that's because they wanted to
develop it, but were not allowed to, unfortunately, so it's understandable).

IF you dare to release cards with a different incompatible chipset
that doesn't even have proper driver support for a popular alternative OS,
then AT LEAST change the card name in order to let people know and discern
which hardware to avoid like the plague, for heaven's sake!
This is such a <CENSORED>, I could <OUCH, CENSORED!>...

Finally, let me mention that we also really dislike the way how
Texas Instruments handles Linux driver support. It's a really shameful
pity, with delays to be measured in years versus the Windows driver
support, and with poor and buggy binary driver support.
All in all our team would be very grateful to receive proper
development support and cooperation from TI in order to create
proper Linux drivers. That would be The Good Way to do it...
(although admittedly that would still only be the second-best way to do it,
with the best way being to have paid company developers work on a
well-working OSS driver, of course)
After all it's the hardware VENDOR that's earning money via OUR, the
customers', payment, so it should be the damn responsibility of the
hardware vendor to ensure good driver support (if by no other means
than providing sufficient specs to OSS developers), not the other way around!
Just imagine the weird looks of thousands and thousands of Linux users
when they discovered the lack of support for the product that they just
shelled out considerable amounts of money for...

Have fun!

The ACX100 OSS driver project team :-)
http://acx100.sourceforge.net





Aha. Und wie setze ich das jetzt in die Praxis um? Eine .BIN Datei gibts auf meiner WLAN CD nicht und auch die WLANGEN nicht im sys32 unter Windows.