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Is it possible to do an network install over a wireless network (WPA) ???

Greetings LoucheWidlin

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louchewidlin wrote:
> Is it possible to do an network install over a wireless network (WPA)
> ???

Yes, but… Many of the wireless cards rely on firmware that cannot be
distributed by openSUSE. If you have one of those, you will need to be able to
supply that separately.

What is your wifi card?

Larry

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It’s a ZyDAS/canyon zd1211 wireless usb stick

LoucheWidlin

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Hi,

The linux kernel module giving support to devices based in zd1211 and zd1211b starting from releases 2.8.18 is zd1211rw, which is a rewritting of the old provided by the chip vendor.

It is in the branch kernel/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw of the kernel tree, being the name zd1211rw.ko.

So, every usb stick based in that Zydas chip should be also supported.

Nevertheless, you are not out of problems, since this driver has internally ‘harcoded’ only several USB device ids, which means that even when the module is available to be loaded, it won’t probably detect your device.

That was a problem I experienced when trying to make my Debian box to detect my SMC EZ Connect g 802.11g Wireless USB Adaptor, which is based in the same zd1211b chip.

Finally, I had to get the source of the module, add the corresponding USB id of my device and it worked like a charm.

So, in your case, if the Open Suse install kernel zd1211rw module doesn’t have support for your usb device id, it will surely fail to detect it.

Well, the battle is not lost yet. You can build the module in another OpenSuse box you have available, then copy it to a cd-rom that will be used like a driver cdrom and make the install process use it at installation time.
For that, you will have to install the source kernel package, find the Usb id of your device (lsusb -v), edit the zd1211rw.c source code, and build the module.

By the way, this module needs a firmware file to work properly, just as highlighted by lwfinger, so you will have to get it from here:
SourceForge.net: Files

Find details about the zd1211rw driver here:
zd1211rw - Linux Wireless

Hope this helps.

Regards.
support

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I will give it a try,

Thanks
LoucheWidlin