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J_Zar

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From: Villa Santina (UD), Italy

Registered: 2006-09-19

Posts: 36

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Wireless zd1211 bug

Driver is zd1211. Problem seen in these posts:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=30141
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=30873
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=31178

Affects 2.6.20.X kernel series.
I have the same issue (my wireless card seems not to be usable through driver while driver is correctly loaded) and more.
In kernel 2.6.19-beyond and 2.6.19-suspend2 I can't associate my access point to the card:

iwconfig wlan0 essid MYESSID ap XX:XX:XX:XX
or
iwconfig wlan0 essid MYESSID ap any

gives:

Access point:  Not Associated

In the past (1 or 2 months ago) I used my card correctly.
Nowadays I tried different configurations of my network to solve issue: no hope. Actually my ap is opened without encryption with dhcp (yes... configuration "kill my net if you want!!!") and no changes.
So problem IS NOT:

- wpa
- access point configuration
- driver loading
- netcfg
- dhcp

I suspect some issue between iwconfig and driver. With wifi-radar output is:

"wlan0: interface does not support scanning"

but if I try I CAN'T associate ap manually either.

Any idea on how to manage this issue?

Last edited by J_Zar (2007-04-15 11:08:03)

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: Wireless zd1211 bug

try using zd1211rw included in the vanilla kernel.

James

J_Zar

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From: Villa Santina (UD), Italy

Registered: 2006-09-19

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Re: Wireless zd1211 bug

zd1211rw does not work for my device. Udev loads both zd1211rw and zd1211b so I was considering some conflict.
UNLOADING  zd1211b  and LOADING zd1211rw does not provide access to device.
UNLOADING  zd1211rw  and LOADING zd1211b does not change situation.
LOADING BOTH does not change situation.

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: Wireless zd1211 bug

both should never be loaded, blacklist at least one, and then reboot so it loads the correct one, which would be the other.

J_Zar

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From: Villa Santina (UD), Italy

Registered: 2006-09-19

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Re: Wireless zd1211 bug

it doesn't help. I tried also installing zd1211 firmware 1.3 hosted at sf.net but there is no change.

Last edited by J_Zar (2007-04-15 12:25:14)

gradgrind

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-10-06

Posts: 921

Re: Wireless zd1211 bug

I don't know if this is of any help, my device is a zd1211 without the 'b', but when I switched to the zd1211rw module, my interface, which had previously been wlan0, became eth1, which I could start with:

ifconfig eth1 up
iwconfig eth1 essid myessid
iwconfig eth1 key s:"mywep"

(the firmware must be installed).

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pjmattal

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From: Boston, MA

Registered: 2003-12-24

Posts: 40

Re: Wireless zd1211 bug

J_Zar and others, you may want to try the firmware solution again. I got it working and built a firmware PKGBUILD you could try. If this all works, we'll eventually put it in extra:

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

J_Zar

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From: Villa Santina (UD), Italy

Registered: 2006-09-19

Posts: 36

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Re: Wireless zd1211 bug

I'll try it... but in the meanwhile there is something strange in the PKGBUILD. I modified a couple of lines.

pkgname=zd1211-firmware
pkgver=1.3
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Firmware for use with the in-kernel26 zd1211rw wireless driver"
arch=('i686')
url=""
license=('GPL')
depends=()
makedepends=()
provides=()
conflicts=()
replaces=()
backup=()
install=
source=(http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/zd1211/zd1211-firmware$pkgver.tar.bz2)

build() {
  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/lib/firmware || return 1
  cp -a $startdir/src/$pkgname $startdir/pkg/lib/firmware/zd1211 || return 1
}
md5sums=('cfff76ea35f4f93c37f6c99aa2058140')

Last edited by J_Zar (2007-05-14 12:00:23)