ocset wrote: > Hi > > I am running SUSE 10.2 (32bit) with a 3COM 3CRUSB10075 card and I am having > a problem with getting the wireless setting to be applied at startup. When I > boot up the machine, the card gets recognised by the zd1211rw driver but the > ESSID and WEP key are always blank and have to be reset manually. All of the > settings are present in the /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan-bus-usb and > ifcfg-eth-id-00:17:31:91:ec:03 files but these just seem to be ignored and I > then have to do it manually using iwconfig.
If it works fine manually then you are dealing with a distro bug. > Also, I have tried the SimplyMEPIS version of Linux just to see how it > handles the usb card and I noticed that in contrast to the SUSE zd1211rw > driver, it uses a zd1211 - is there a difference?. Yes, see http://zd1211.ath.cx for descriptions of the different drivers. > I also noticed that when > SUSE is booted up, none of the lights on the usb driver work even though the > wireless network is connected and working. Under MEPIS, the light all come > on and I can immediately see if I am connected and if there is network > activity . Any idea why what seems to be the same driver gives different > results? If suse uses zd1211rw and mepis uses zd1211 then they are not the same driver. Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Zd1211-devs mailing list - http://zd1211.ath.cx/ Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/zd1211-devs
