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

Vik Olliver vik at econz.co.nz
Mon Nov 13 17:00:28 NZDT 2006


On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 16:51 +1300, Stephen Judd wrote:
> 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.

If this nut is easily crackable, that would be very handy. I'm not
averse to upgrading to Edgy if that's what is required.

Vik :v)

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