Wifi peer to peer with WinXP

[ced]

don\'t known dude! I\'ve done a simple \"google\" search on your chipset and it come back with this driver...

[evowan]

Okay, made some progress now.

I\'ve built the prism2_usb.o module and that reside in my /lib/modules/2.4.22-28mdk/usb and I\'ve also rebuilt my usbcore.o as per instructions from the Zydas tar at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p...?group_id=94356

However, it\'s not gone smoothly since when I built the prism2_usb.o, it wouldn\'t initially load properly. The system insisted on loading the  acx100_pci.o module, which I can only assume it\'s wrong since it\'s not a PCI device, and I opened up the USB dongle itself and clearly stamped on it is a chip with \"ZyDAS ZD1201\".

After blacklisting the acx100 module, when it tried to load the prism2_usb module, it came up with a number of errors of unresolved symbols. After banging my head on the wall a few times, started all over again (reinstalling Mandrake source and kernel) and replaced usbcore.o. Now prism2_usb.o was still in the /lib/modules/..., and then magically when I plugged the USB dongle in, /var/log/messages shows prism2_usb.o being loaded with no problems! To verify, lsmod shows -

Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
prism2_usb             72324   0  (unused)
p80211                 23424   0  [prism2_usb]
iptable_nat            20814   1  (autoclean)
ip_conntrack           26468   1  (autoclean) [iptable_nat]
ip_tables              15072   3  [iptable_nat]
usbnet                 15806   0
lp                      8160   0
parport_pc             25544   1
parport                34472   1  [lp parport_pc]
es1371                 27788   0
ac97_codec             15828   0  [es1371]
gameport                3268   0  [es1371]
af_packet              14856   0  (autoclean)
sr_mod                 17016   0  (autoclean)
floppy                 55932   0
tulip                  43968   1  (autoclean)
ide-cd                 34052   0
cdrom                  32608   0  [sr_mod ide-cd]
bttv                   99648   0
i2c-algo-bit            8552   0  [bttv]
soundcore               6340   0  [es1371 bttv]
i2c-core               20484   0  [bttv i2c-algo-bit]
videodev                7936   3  [bttv]
ide-scsi               11376   0
scsi_mod              105792   2  [sr_mod ide-scsi]
usbmouse                2936   0  (unused)
keybdev                 2756   0  (unused)
mousedev                5428   1
hid                    24164   0  (unused)
input                   5696   0  [usbmouse keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-uhci               25136   0  (unused)
usbcore                73100   1  [prism2_usb usbnet usbmouse hid usb-uhci]
rtc                     9228   0  (autoclean)


HOWEVER! As I follow the instructions at stage 3 where you set the port type using \"wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibset mibattribute=p2CnfPortType=0\", I get an error on return -

wlanctl-ng: No such device

Now, I assume it\'s probably talking about wlan0 since an \'ifconfig\' doesn\'t even show wlan0. Now if anyone can help me take further steps to get a wlan0 up now, I\'d be most greatful.

[evowan]

I\'ve just realised, it\'s probably not best to even continue this thread now since it\'s not really anything to do with the Z anymore and the topic title isn\'t even accurate anymore since I\'m not using WinXP.... But if anyone likes to PM me to help me out, that would be great!

[lardman]

Might be worth moving it to \'off topic\' and restating all of the pertinant info

Si

[evowan]

Hi all,

Just to say that since I had problems with getting my USB ZyDAS chipset Wifi dongle to work with linux, I decided to revert back to trying to get my peer2peer network with WinXP instead as the thread title suggests.

My workaround the hardware and network bridge problem was to install proxy server software on my WinXP machine. By telling the Z to use proxy servers for http, I can at least browse the web from my Z wirelessly. This solution may help anyone else who faces a similar problem.  

As for anything concerning DHCP, etc, I still used static IPs at the end of the day to get this to work.