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Thanks for all the help so far, trying to configure my Zoom Air USB wireless
client 11MB. The Zoom Air uses the Intersil chipset so I am assuming it is prism2. I have not got it working but found out more information: YAST: Yast lists the device as: Class Unclassified device Device identifier 210498 Vendor Intersil Corp Vendor identifier: 199082 Now I assume that somewhere the vendor ID and device ID are used to look up which driver to use, is this correct. /var/messages/log Looking the file I have notices that the following occurs at boot time Sep 10 20:13:24 linux kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-2, assigned address 3 Sep 10 20:13:24 linux kernel: usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x9aa/0x3642) is not claimed by any active driver. This appears to be the wireless lan being detect but unknown. I also notice after this that the messages appear: Sep 10 20:13:36 linux kernel: init_module: prism2_usb.o: 0.1.16-pre9 Loaded Sep 10 20:13:36 linux kernel: init_module: dev_info is: prism2_usb Sep 10 20:13:36 linux kernel: usb.c: registered new driver prism2_usb Sep 10 20:13:36 linux insmod: Using /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB-athlon/wlan-ng/p80211.o Sep 10 20:13:36 linux insmod: Symbol version prefix '' Sep 10 20:13:36 linux insmod: Using /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB-athlon/wlan-ng/prism2_usb.o So it does appear to be loading the right driver. Now to my naive linux brain it seems that all I need to do is tie these two together. Is this where modules.usbmap comes in I notice it have the following lines: # usb module match_flags idVendor idProduct bcdDevice_lo bcdDevice_hi bDeviceClass bDeviceSubClass bDeviceProtocol bInterfaceClass bInterfaceSubClass bInterfaceProtocol driver_info prism2_usb 0x0003 0x09aa 0x3642 0x0000 0x0000 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0000ce00 So it does seem to know that this device requires a prism2_usb driver. So it would seem to be down the config file. I have created a file in /etc/sysconfig/network call ifcfg-wlan-usb but this does not seem to be picked up by ifconfig or iwconfig. What does ifup do? Many Thanks Jon |