Belkin F5D7050 Wireless USB adapter

[quellen]

Hi,
i have a Belkin F5D7050 Wireless USB adapter. How Can I use it on TinyCore?

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Bus 001 Device 004: ID 050d:705c Belkin Components F5D7050 Wireless G Adapter v4000 [Zydas ZD1211B]


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$ sudo wifi.sh
Found wifi device wlan0
Standby for scan of available networks...
Set to try a few times to obtain a lease.
Failed to connect.

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$ sudo iw dev
phy#2
Interface wlan0
ifindex 8
wdev 0x200000001
addr CENSURED
type managed


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$ sudo iw dev wlan0 scan
command failed: Network is down (-100)

wicd doesn't run (no output)

[Juanito]

As per:

https://wiki.debian.org/zd1211rw

..it looks like you need to install firmware before things will work - you can usually see this from dmesg

[quellen]

thanks,
i tried to download zd1211 package of ArchLinux and i extract it on /usr/lib/ and /usr/lib/firmware but "wifi.sh" says same error. where i must put the firmware?

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/any/zd1211-firmware/

[curaga]

Firmware should go to /lib/firmware.

[quellen]

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$ sudo modprobe -l|grep zd1212
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/zd1201.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd1211rw.ko.gz


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$ iwlist scanning
[...]
waln0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down
[...]


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$ iwconfig
wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:off/any 
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=0 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:on


[Juanito]

OK, but what does dmesg say?

[quellen]

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$ dmesg
[...]
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
loop: module loaded
tulip: Linux Tulip driver version 1.1.15 (Feb 27, 2007)
tulip 0000:00:11.0: enabling device (0012 -> 0013)
tulip: tulip_init_one: Enabled WOL support for AN983B
tulip0:  MII transceiver #1 config 3000 status 786d advertising 01e1
net eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at Port 0x1c00, 00:90:96:1e:09:31, IRQ 11
input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input6
microcode: CPU0 sig=0x68a, pf=0x10, revision=0x1
Adding 22616k swap on /dev/zram0.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:22616k SS
squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.00 <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>, Peter Oruba
Adding 273100k swap on /dev/sda3.  Priority:-2 extents:1 across:273100k
EXT4-fs (sda1): mounting ext2 file system using the ext4 subsystem
EXT4-fs (sda1): warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem without journal. Opts: (null)
tulip 0000:00:11.0 eth0: tulip_stop_rxtx() failed (CSR5 0xfc664010 CSR6 0xff972117)
net eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII#1 link partner capability of 41e1
[Firmware Bug]: battery: (dis)charge rate invalid.
usb 1-1: new full-speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd
cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
usb 1-1: reset full-speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd
ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid'
zd1211rw 1-1:1.0: phy0
usbcore: registered new interface driver zd1211rw
usb 1-1: Could not load firmware file zd1211/zd1211b_ub. Error number -2
zd1211rw 1-1:1.0: couldn't load firmware. Error number -2

maybe Archlinux zd1211 firmware is not good for Tiny Core 3.8.13

[bmarkus]

Firmware is not related to Linux distro but the adapter.

[gerald_clark]

You need to install the firmware-zd1211.tcz extension.

[quellen]

SOLVED:
i have installed zd1211-firmware.tcz and now wifi works good. Thanks, I love TinyCore!