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fdrebin

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Registered: 2005-04-25

Posts: 152

WLAN USB device zd1211 doesn't show up in iwconfig

I've just installed arch 0.8 and i'm having trouble using a wireless USB device based on the zd1211 chipset.
Under modules in my rc.conf there is zd1211rw wich should be the driver for my zd1211-device that comes with the kernel i think.
but when calling iwconfig just "lo" and "eth0" is listed and both aren't wireless ...
any ideas???

lang2

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Registered: 2006-02-10

Posts: 386

Re: WLAN USB device zd1211 doesn't show up in iwconfig

I got it working with open network here. Not sure if it helps you.

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=39168

fdrebin

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Registered: 2005-04-25

Posts: 152

Re: WLAN USB device zd1211 doesn't show up in iwconfig

ok i installed the firmware drivers and now the interface is found.
i proceeded like described in the wiki but for some reason it still doesn't work.
here my errors.log:

Nov  9 21:42:07 arch usb 1-2: Could not load firmware file zd1211/zd1211_ub. Error number -2
Nov  9 21:42:07 arch zd1211rw 1-2:1.0: couldn't load firmware. Error number -2
Nov  9 21:42:07 arch usb 1-2: device_add(1-2:1.0) --> -2
Nov  9 21:53:33 arch dhcpcd[5405]: timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response

???

fdrebin

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Registered: 2005-04-25

Posts: 152

Re: WLAN USB device zd1211 doesn't show up in iwconfig

ok this works for me too :

#!/bin/sh
INTERFACE=eth1
ifconfig $INTERFACE up
iwconfig $INTERFACE essid "MyId"
iwconfig $INTERFACE key MyKey
dhcpcd eth1

now it would be nice how to do it the arch-way --> what to put in rc.conf and wireless- files ???

lang2

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Registered: 2006-02-10

Posts: 386

Re: WLAN USB device zd1211 doesn't show up in iwconfig

That was my question too.

fdrebin

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Registered: 2005-04-25

Posts: 152

Re: WLAN USB device zd1211 doesn't show up in iwconfig

ok everything works fine now - with knetworkmanager....