[nzlug] WiFi USB Adaptor that works under Ubuntu & Red Hat

[Stephen Judd]

On 11/13/06, Peter Butler <peter.butler at 141.com> wrote:
> Another word of warning - I've just bought one of these and can't get it
> to work at all under Dapper (2.6.15-27-386).  I've tried the stock
> drivers, the drivers from t ndiswrapper from the Ubuntu
> repositories and the latest stable version of ndiswrapper.  There are a
> bunch of HOWTOs on getting it to work under Dapper, but they are all out
> of date and/or wrong, most with followup posts saying "I can't get this
> to work with kernel version 2.6.X" (for recent values of X).
>
> Does anyone have any advice on getting this to work, or should I chuck
> it in the corner for six months?

I had it working with 802.11g at home on Dapper (Amd64, FWIW).

I used the drivers at http://zd1211.ath.cx/download/ and definitely
had success with r80 and some earlier ones too.

What went wrong? Eg, could you bring up wlan0? Did iwconfig show the
access point? Did wpa_supplicant complain in dmesg or syslog?

Did you build for zd1211b (you have to edit the makefile otherwise it
builds for the other chipset)?

I've since upgraded my boxes to Edgy and moved back to wired, but I'll
poke around this evening to see if I can retrace my steps.

Regards

Stephen