zd1211 + wpa-psk

[Terry Polzin]

On Wednesday 06 June 2007 10:52:01 John W. Linville wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 10:14:27AM -0400, Terry Polzin wrote:
> > On Wednesday 06 June 2007 09:05:11 John W. Linville wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 07:40:50PM -0400, Terry Polzin wrote:
> > > > wpa_supplicant tells me that zd1211rw is an invalid  driver.
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone experience to share with this driver and wpa-psk?
> > >
> > > How are you running wpa_supplicant?  Manually?  Or via NetworkManager?
> >
> > Manually, NetworkManager or Avahi-daemon seems to create contention of
> > somekind while trying to get an IP.
> >
> > [/etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant] Note my DRIVERS comment
> >
> > # wlan0 and wifi0
> > # INTERFACES="-iwlan0 -iwifi0"
> > #INTERFACES="-iwlan0"
> > INTERFACES="-ieth1"
> > # ndiswrapper and prism
> > # DRIVERS="-Dndiswrapper -Dprism"
> > #DRIVERS="-Dndiswrapper"
> > #DRIVERS="-Dzd1211rw"
> > DRIVERS="-Dwext" # This setting new something to try this evening @ home
>
> This is what I suspected (assuming based on comment that you have not
> yet tried "-Dwext").  The "driver" for wpa_supplicant has to do with
> the interface to the kernel, not necessarily the specific wireless
> hardwre driver.
>
> My bet is that "-Dwext" will be much more sucessful for you.
>
> Hth!
>
> John

I'll let you know how I make out, I dounf the -Dwext on a Google search. After 
trying various zd1211, zydas combinations which just plain don't work.  Maybe 
I didn't search the docs well enough. ;-) 

As long as everything else looks  sane.

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