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I just got my E-Tech Wireless USB Adapter working under Ubuntu. These where the steps:

• Plug the device into the usb port
• Type ‘dmesg’, this shows the following:


[4302473.979000] usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4[4302474.383000] usb 1-2: Failed to load zd1201.fw firmware file!
[4302474.383000] usb 1-2: Make sure the hotplug firmware loader is installed.
[4302474.383000] usb 1-2: Goto http://linux-lc100020.sourceforge.net for more info


• Go to the Linux ZyDAS zd1201 Driver website and download the latest firmware driver.
• Unpack the driver:


~/src$ tar xzvf zd1201-0.14-fw.tar.gz
zd1201-0.14-fw/
zd1201-0.14-fw/zd1201.fw
zd1201-0.14-fw/README
zd1201-0.14-fw/makefile
zd1201-0.14-fw/zd1201-ap.fw

Run ‘sudo make install’ in the zd1201-0.14-fw directory. This returned the following error message:

~/src/zd1201-0.14-fw$ sudo make install
INSTALL zd1201.fw zd1201-ap.fw
Failed: No firmware directory found
make: *** [install] Error 1


• So let’s do it ourselves! The command to copy the firmware drivers to the right location is:


~/src/zd1201-0.14-fw$ sudo cp *fw /lib/firmware/`uname -r`


• Now that the drivers are in place, just pull out the usb stick and plug it in again. In ‘dmesg’ the following section appears:


[4303176.729000] usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5[4303177.421000] usb 1-2: wlan0: ZD1201 USB Wireless interface
[4303188.374000] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present


• Now you can simply configure the new network device using the ‘Networking’ configuration tool which you can find in the ‘System > Administration’ menu.

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