Christoph Biedl wrote... An update:
Besides I expected something like wlan0: > | zd1211rw 6-1:1.0: eth1 > > To my big surprise the newly created device is actually eth2. ... while there is no eth1 at all. > | SoftMAC: Authentication timed out with 00:14:bf:**:**:** This can be cured using the patch at http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=fe7215caa033814cee1e6808e44132b7cefb1a9e;hp=e9ffb3d7ec94083a44a8721681391beca2ffd68c Now I can do | # iwconfig eth2 | eth2 802.11g zd1211 ESSID:"*******" | Mode:Managed Frequency:2.432 GHz Access Point: 00:14:BF:**:**:** | Bit Rate=1 Mb/s | Encryption key:off | Link Quality=100/100 Signal level=100/100 | Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 | Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 but I actually do not trust the "Link" and "Signal" numbers. In my setup: ( Notebook with zd1211b ) ... ( access point ) --- ( server ) I see at the server a lot of packets like 22:42:33.855426 00:13:49:**:**:** > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff sap 00 xid/R: 01 00 len=40 ^ MAC of WLAN adapter so traffic gets through but not IP. But this might be a problem outside of zd1211 - I never succeeded in getting the kernel 80211 stuff running thus far. Christoph
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