Getting Zyxel G-202 (wireless USB) to work

[alexthunder]

Hello.
I have bought a Zyxel G-202 and I'm trying install this on Debian (etch). I think the driver is installed but when I plug in the wlan I don't get any new devices.
There is not much info about this card on the net. On a few pages it's writen that it has the right chipset.

However both G-220 and G-200. shoul be compatible with the zd1211 driver.

The driver seemed to be installed correctly. But I do not know if I should have done something before compiled the "zd1211" driver OR before I used modconf and istalled it to the kernel.

However when I plug in and plug out the stick , I can see through dmesg that the usb ports are at least working.

Acording to the file zdusb.h it is needed to add some values. But which in that case.

/* Define these values to match your device */
#define VENDOR_ZYDAS 0x0ACE //ZyDAS
#define PRODUCT_1211 0x1211
#define PRODUCT_A211 0xa211
#define VENDOR_ZYXEL 0x0586 //ZyXEL
#define PRODUCT_G220 0x3401
#define VENDOR_3COM 0x6891
#define PRODUCT_A727 0xA727
#define PRODUCT_G220F 0x3402

Please help If anyone got an idea.

P.S I'm rather new to linux and I am a Windows user. But I'm working hard.

[jullejuntunen]

Hi Alex,

I had the same problem recently. I modified and recompiled the zd1211rw driver and I was even able to get iwconfig to regocnize the g-202. However, I never got it working: I couldn't make it associate with my wireless access point nor to get IP address for it.

But the I found something called ndiswrapper that can use the original windows drivers from zyxel. And this did the trick, now the g-202 works nicely and I got it also activating automatically during the boot after playing a bit with /etc/sysconfig files. Just download the driver from zyxel website and follow instructions here
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...p/Installation

My system is fedora6 but I guess it should work also in your case.

btw. in case of zd1211rw you need to modify zd_usb.c file by adding this line

{ USB_DEVICE(0x0586, 0x3410), .driver_info = DEVICE_ZD1211 },

where that value for USB_DEVICE is is what you see with lsusb command.
This needs to be added to static struct usb_device_id usb_ids[] -definitions. Then I just recompiled the thing, did
make ins
and
modprobe -v zd1211rw.

to load the module. Then with ifconfig, iwscan and iwconfig I tried configuring and activating it, but there I run out of luck and eventually found the ndiswrapper.

hope this helps
-julle