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Archadious

Member

Registered: 2007-03-07

Posts: 14

zd1211 based USB wireless problems

I'm having trouble using a wireless USB device based on the zd1211 chipset.
Drivers load correctly when the device is plugged in but dhcp won't connect,
at lest not consistently.

That's the maddening part.  I've gotten a connection a few times but often
enough to figure out a pattern.

Anyone else have experience with USB devices of this chipset?

-A

pjmattal

Forum Fellow

From: Boston, MA

Registered: 2003-12-24

Posts: 40

Re: zd1211 based USB wireless problems

You probably want to use the zd1211rw driver which is part of the newest kernels. So don't install the zd1211 package, but you will also need the firmware. I'm working on a package for that, as you can see at:

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6438?histring=zd1211

Hopefully this is somewhat helpful.