Hi Daniel, The old zd1211-83 works very well (e.g. with kernel 2.6.18), but I haven't managed to make the zd1211rw included in 2.6.19-rc1 work, yet.
I had posted some similar question three months ago (sorry
for the huge delay). Your recommendation was to skip all
the Debian network config and to manually run iwconfig
instead. So I did:
For testing I have commented out both wlan0 and eth2 from
the network configuration, and booted the new kernel.
If I plug in the USB dongle (the "old" Fiberline WL-430U
with usb id 0ace:1211), then the kernel says
usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
zd1211rw 1-3:1.0: firmware version 4605
zd1211rw 1-3:1.0: zd1211 chip 0ace:1211 v4330 high 00-11-f6 RF2959_RF pa0 ----
zd1211rw 1-3:1.0: eth2
usbcore: registered new interface driver zd1211rw
iwconfig returns:
% iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth1 no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth2 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"zd1211"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Invalid
Encryption key:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Running iwconfig to set the essid _seems_ to succeed, but the
essid is just wiped out:
% iwconfig eth2 essid harrinet
% echo $?
0
% iwconfig eth2
eth2 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"" Nickname:"zd1211"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Invalid
Encryption key:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Maybe this is related:
% iwlist eth2 scan
eth2 Interface doesn't support scanning : No such device
Any helpful hint would be highly appreciated.
Many thanx
Harri
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