zd1211 wireless driver broken, too old (20050315)

This is the old version that does not support WEP or other features.

Strangely, the drivers reports itself as zd1205 (instead of zd1211).

Just installed the latest release of the zd1211 driver (Release 69) and it works like a charm.

I can confirm that the driver currently in ubuntu dapper beta 2 does not work for me. iwconfig reports it as a wired interface.

Sean, try 'sudo ifconfig wlan0 up' before using iwconfig. The interface needs to be up before using iwconfig.

Since no other driver has this behavior, and it keeps on confusing users and tools like network-manager, can we please fix that?

Doesn't madwifi (ath0) have the same behaviour? (the interface has to be up so that it can associate/scan)

madwifi: Search for "ifconfig ath0 up" at http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo

"Then we need to bring up the wireless interface. This is done by typing (as root):

ifconfig ath0 up

Next, you can do the actual scan, which can be done in two ways. "

in madwifi, the interface needs to be up for the radio to be enabled. for zd1211 the interface needs to be up to behave like an wireless interface at all!

IOW: If the interface is down, zd1211 doesn't behave like an wireless interface, and iwconfig pretends that wifi0 had no wireless extensions at all!

Thanks for the clarification.

In that case, I think the zd1211 project (http://zd1211.ath.cx/) needs to be notified.

I am not sure whether the NetworkManager (or other GNOME network tools) will put an exception for the zd1211 case. It does not hurt to report it though.

Status report:

Zd1211 based USB stick (A-link) freezes Dapper Drake Beta 2 (amd64) completely.

Self compiling newest driver isn't possible also, most probably same problem than
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1483346&group_id=129083&atid=713754

Maybe kernel compilation with different options and then retrying Zd1211 compilation solvest the problem. I'll try later if time allows..

To be exact: PROBLEM in compilation is this what I reported to zd1211 devs:

http://www.nabble.com/R76-version%27s-compile-fails-in-Ubuntu-amd64-%28Dapper-Drake%29-t1582738.html

And SOLUTION for compile problem is most probably:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1483346&group_id=129083&atid=713754

The driver included with dapper is unmaintained according to the current driver project (http://zd1211.ath.cx/wiki/FAQ)

This 18 month old driver shouldn't have ended up in 6.06 LTS, the driver from http://zd1211.atx.cx is the correct one.

I have it working here but it needs compiling against kernel headers which people shouldn't have to do.

The driver identifies itself as the 2005-03-15 driver, http://zd1211.ath.cx/wiki/FAQ says that driver is "out-dated, probably non-functional, and unmaintained", so confirmed.

No need for this.

Whoops, wrong bug

Isn't this one already fix released ?