Bug 157503

Summary:	ifup-wireless not compatible with zd1211 chipset
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Andreas Feldner <pelzi>
Component:	Network	Assignee:	Joachim Gleissner <joachim.gleissner>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Attachments:	A patch that $worksforme

Description Andreas Feldner 2006-03-12 22:39:53 UTC

The ifup-wireless script as shipped with SuSE Linux 10.0 (and 9.2) can't cope with a wlan usb stick run by the zd1211.ko 3rd party kernel module. It seems, this device's WEP encryption setup works fine with iwconfig, but not with wlanctl. Setting the WEP encryption key by 

iwconfig $INTERFACE key $WIRELESS_KEY_0

will work fine, although a query for the device property $dot11PrivacyOptionImplemented yields false.

Comment 1 Andreas Feldner 2006-03-12 22:40:57 UTC

Created attachment 72470 [details]
A patch that $worksforme

Comment 2 Christian Zoz 2006-03-13 20:13:59 UTC

Andreas, could you test that with a current beta version of 10.1?

Our wlan expert is on vacation this week and i don't know for sure if something changed regarding your problem. Would be nice to knoe if we have to fix something for the upcoming release (if it is not already to late). We don't have every kind of hardware, but i will check tomorrow if we have such a device available.

Comment 3 Joachim Gleissner 2006-03-22 17:18:51 UTC

Some devices seem to support the wlan-ng interface, but in fact they don't. I've added zd1211 (and zd1201 to be sure) to the list of those drivers. iwconfig will be used automatically in 10.1. There will be probably no update for 10.0 as we don't ship the driver.