Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Debian and zd1211 wifi

Hello,
I'm using debian lenny and I've got these two problems:

  • With versions of the linux kernel prior to 2.6.20 (maybe) I could install zd1211 firmware using the module-assistant which has been now dropped from testing and unstable.
  • Boot process slowed down by 30 seconds and couldn't plug-in the usb pen because udev/hal screw up

What I've done is to remove the source and its created firmware, with the one shipped with testing and unstable (bug #411912):

aptitude remove --purge zd1211-firmware zd1211-source
aptitude update
m-a clean zd1211
aptitude install zd1211-firmware

Now let's fix the hotplug part, open /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules and remove similar lines:
# USB device 0ace:1215 (zd1211rw)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:1d:0f:b3:66:f7", NAME="eth2"
Now try to detach and reattach your usb pen and everything should magically work.

Thanks to Nss (#debianizzati), dcbw NetworkManager developer and gsimmons (#debian).

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ma zd1211-firmware non e' unica per tutte e tre le versioni? A quanto so l'unica differenza starebbe nella nomenclatura del kernel, diventanto wlan0_rename a partire dal 22 in poi.

Luca Bruno said...

Si ma c'era il zd1211-source per compilarlo con module-assistant.
wlan0_rename e' un problema di udev nelle rules permanenti a causa dell'upgrade che dev'essere tolto, come descritto nella seconda parte del post per farlo diventare _normalmente_ wlan0.

Anjelina said...

Nice Post! I liked it.

pandith13 said...

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