Hello all, I'm afraid I'm off topic here, because I'm not a developer, however I couldn't manage to find a users mailing list. If you are aware of any, please point me there.
I've been using three zd1211 USB adapters since r59 of the old driver. Then 2.6.18 came along and the old driver stopped working. I kept 2.6.17 until forced to upgrade. A few days ago I upgraded two of my Debian Etch boxes to the stable release and recompiled the kernel from vanilla sources (2.6.20.6). I've included the new zd1211rw module and its debug informations. Linux 2.6.20.6 started working like a charm for a few days, including the module zd1211rw (one box is K7 the other 686). Then the zd1211rw module stopped working on both boxes with no clear reason (same wireless network, but the problem is on the linux boxes for sure, booting windows they still work). I can "iwlist scan" and see my wireless network, but when I "dhclient wlan0" they simply fail to get in touch with the DHCP server. Even if I assing a static address I can't even ping the AP. After various trials and errors, I've ended up with /etc/network/interfaces basically empty (only "lo" mentioned there) and a script like this: #!/bin/bash -x modprobe zd1211rw ifconfig wlan0 up iwconfig wlan0 rate 2Mb iwconfig wlan0 essid MyAP key xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ap 00:18:F3:93:2D:33 dhclient wlan0 This script should take into account the known issues reported on the wiki (ifup before anything else and manual rate selection), but it still doesn't work; here is what I get from dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 receive_packet failed on wlan0: Network is down DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 21 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 No DHCPOFFERS received No working leases in persisted database Sleeping dmesg has tons of rows like the following: zd1211rw 1-2:1.0: zd_mac_get_channel() channel 11 zd1211rw 1-2:1.0: iw_get_range() zd1211rw 1-2:1.0: zd_mac_get_channel() channel 11 zd1211rw 1-2:1.0: iw_get_range() zd1211rw 1-2:1.0: zd_mac_get_channel() channel 11 zd1211rw 1-2:1.0: iw_get_range() ... I've took a look at /var/log/messages, it says: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready SoftMAC: Open authentication completed with 00:18:F3:93:2D:33 ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready SoftMAC: Open authentication completed with 00:18:F3:93:2D:33 SoftMAC: Open authentication completed with 00:18:F3:93:2D:33 SoftMAC: Open authentication completed with 00:18:F3:93:2D:33 SoftMAC: Open authentication completed with 00:18:F3:93:2D:33 Other maybe interesting things: * although I set the rate (no matter which value between the ones supported), iwconfig shows always a rate of 1Mb/s. * my wireless adapters are 0ACE:1211, but I can't remember the exact brand, however I believe it's not a hardware problem because they used to work with the old driver and they've worked for a few days with the zd1211rw also. * the module stopped working without any modifications to the system configuration (last wednesday it was working on both boxes, then I left the boxes offline for 4 days and last sunday, which means yesterday, it wasn't working anymore). * I've forgotten to cut&paste the exact message, but when I modprobe zd1211rw, it appears something in /var/log/messages telling that the firmware version doesn't match the hardware version or something like that, however it seems to load the firmware without problems Any clue? Thanks in advance, Lucio. -- Virtual Bit di Lucio Crusca via Isonzo, 5 10069 - Villar Perosa (TO) Italy VAT No. IT09534960019 http://virtualbit.sulweb.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Zd1211-devs mailing list - http://zd1211.ath.cx/ Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/zd1211-devs
