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

[Stephen Judd]

I can report I'm using this dongle right now to send this message.

I just rebuilt the r80 driver, which I happen to have source for
already downloaded, did "sudo make install", plugged the dongle in,
and then "dhclient wlan0".

This box says:

uname -a
Linux gall 2.6.17-10-generic #2 SMP Fri Oct 13 15:34:39 UTC 2006
x86_64 GNU/Linux

In dmesg I see:

[ 7719.198713] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 7719.297936] wlan0: WPA: enabled
[ 7719.309922] wlan0: Drop encrypted: enabled
[ 7720.612979] wlan0: Configured authentication algorithms:  Open system
[ 7720.613220] wlan0: Drop encrypted: enabled
[ 7720.613360] zd1211:Switch to Infra mode
[ 7720.620669] zd1211:Mixed Mode
[ 7720.621052] wlan0: WPA version:  WPA
[ 7720.621185] wlan0: pairwise cipher:  TKIP
[ 7720.621318] wlan0: group cipher:  TKIP
[ 7720.621448] wlan0: key mgmt:  PSK
[ 7720.621566] wlan0: privacy: enabled
[ 7720.621685] wlan0: Allow Rx unencrypted EAPOL: disabled
[ 7726.554336] wlan0: Configured authentication algorithms:  Open system
[ 7726.554351] wlan0: Drop encrypted: enabled
[ 7726.554364] zd1211:Switch to Infra mode
[ 7726.554474] zd1211:Mixed Mode
[ 7726.554726] wlan0: WPA version:  WPA
[ 7726.554730] wlan0: pairwise cipher:  TKIP
[ 7726.554733] wlan0: group cipher:  TKIP
[ 7726.554736] wlan0: key mgmt:  PSK
[ 7726.554738] wlan0: privacy: enabled
[ 7726.554741] wlan0: Allow Rx unencrypted EAPOL: disabled
[ 7726.594677] zd1211:Mixed Mode
[ 7726.718426] zd1211:STA_ASSOCIATED with 00:11:50:f0:f4:70
[ 7726.718431] zd1211:Notify_join_event:00:11:50:f0:f4:70
[ 7726.718595] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 7726.726068] *** Block Non-EAPol packet before key installed:86dd
[ 7727.189585] *** Block Non-EAPol packet before key installed:86dd
[ 7737.179049] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present

and iwconfig says:

wlan0     802.11b/g NIC  ESSID:"belkin54g"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.462 GHz  Access Point: 00:11:50:F0:F4:70
          Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
          Retry:off   RTS thr=2432 B   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=100/100  Signal level=87/100  Noise level=0/100
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:1
          Tx excessive retries:52  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

> I've also tried using a static IP address but this doesn't work either.
> I've googled around for this error but no luck so far.

Here's the relevant chunk of /etc/network/interfaces

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
pre-up sleep 4
address 192.168.2.200
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.2.1
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

and here's my very simple wpa_supplication.conf

network={
        ssid="belkin54g"
        psk=*******************************************************************************
}

I wonder if in fact something somewhere the driver assumes that you do
have wpa_supplicant on?

Stephen