wierd zd1211rw wireless adapter problem

[Philip Walden]

Philip Walden wrote:
> Philip Walden wrote:
>> I have a Airlink AWLL3026 using the zd1211rw driver. I am using WEP 
>> with a hex key and dhcp client to get a IP number. I can see the 
>> device initializing and connecting to eth1 using dmesg.
>>
>> I am not using NetworkManager, just the System>Administration>Network 
>> gui.
>>
>> For the life of me I cannot get this adapter to connect and get an IP 
>> number on system start or by itself. In fact the only incantation 
>> that seems to work is to :
>>
>> 1. deactivate the wireless eth1
>> 2. connect and activate the wired lan eth0 to get an IP number
>> 3. deactivate the wired eth0
>> 4. activate eth1 which then says dhcp client is already busy, but now 
>> I have an active working wireless connection???!!
>>
>> So this tells me that the WEP is correctly set up, but the dchp 
>> request is not working with the wireless eth1.
>>
>> Any ideas?
> Well after much fiddling, I was unable to get a reliable activation of 
> eth1.
>
> So I switched to NetworkManager, as I had not had much luck with it in 
> FC5 with a different wireless card and had stopped using.
>
> Well again after some fiddling, NetworkManager seems to connect 
> reliably on login. It is annoying that it asks for the keyring 
> password just after entering the login password. A rudimentary attempt 
> to stop it doing this by editing the /etc/pam.d/gdm file were 
> unsuccessful. Oh well it is good enough for now.
I have noticed that if I lose my connection and try a reconnect, it 
always fails unless I unplug the USB adapter and re-insert it. After 
wards it always reconnects. Thus it may be an initialization problem 
with the zd1211rw driver, itself.