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jrichards 02-02-2009 02:28 PM
Debian Wireless network doesn't work after upgrade
 
I just installed Debian on a spare partiton which already boots Vector Linux with no problems. The wireless network didn't work at first and I was confused by the fact that iwconfig didn't show my wireless dongle as wlan0 and instead showed eth1. After taking it out and putting it back in, I concluded that they were the same but I'm still suspicious, it's never been anything but wlan0 before.

I don't have a lot of experience setting up networks manually but I had a working /etc/network/interfaces file on an almost identical computer and after adjusting it for eth0 I think I got it working, though I'm sure it didn't work at first. I upgraded to testing and rebooted, but then the wireless network stopped working again, repeadtedly saying:

DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8

. I can't remember exactly what I did the first time and checking bash history reveals that the last thing I did was to edit /etc/network/interfaces. I'm not sure whether it's because something changed after the upgrade or because I haven't done something after the reboot that I did last time.

Dmesg says eth1: no IPv6 routers present.

To test the network I'm doing /etc/init.d/networking restart.

Can anyone help?:)

Drakeo 02-02-2009 02:51 PM
what is the device lspci -n or lspci post it.
Quote:
Dmesg says eth1: no IPv6 routers present has nothing to do with not working
if you upgraded and you are using a newer kernel . Where you using a ndiswraper module if so reinstall the ndiswraper module and set up you ndiswrapper. if you were using a module (driver) that requierd firmware like a bradcom chip you will need to upgrade to newer firmware to use it. but if you do not know the device chip name no one can help you.

jrichards 02-02-2009 03:23 PM
The device is a USB wireless dongle and so I don't think lspci would show it. Here's the output of lspci in case I'm wrong.

Code:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02)
I believe that lsusb would be more useful. The relevent line is:

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 6891:a727 3Com 3CRUSB10075


In fact I'm using the zd1211-firmware and so upgrading that sounds like a likely possibility. I've already tried re-installing it though and the version I installed is the same as the one currently in Lenny. COuld there be some other one to install now?

Thanks:)

Drakeo 02-02-2009 03:34 PM
was there a kernel upgrade. if so we need the dmesg out put to see what the kernel is doing with it.
Quote:
as root modprobe zd1211

jrichards 02-02-2009 04:13 PM
I don't know if there was a kernel upgrade, is there an easy way to tell?
The dmesg output has changed considerably since the upgrade due to things like trying the wireless network, but in case that doesn't matter, I've recorded it anyway.

Code:
Linux version 2.6.18-5-686 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-17) (dannf@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 SMP Mon Dec 24 16:41:07 UTC 2007
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fe70000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001fe70000 - 000000001fe72000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001fe72000 - 000000001fe93000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001fe93000 - 000000001ff00000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fecf0000 - 00000000fecf1000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fed20000 - 00000000fed90000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
510MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000fe710
On node 0 totalpages: 130672
  DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
  Normal zone: 126576 pages, LIFO batch:31
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL                                  ) @ 0x000feba0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL    GX270  0x00000007 ASL  0x00000061) @ 0x000fd18c
ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL    GX270  0x00000007 ASL  0x00000061) @ 0x000fd1c4
ACPI: SSDT (v001  DELL    st_ex 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0xfffd59ab
ACPI: MADT (v001 DELL    GX270  0x00000007 ASL  0x00000061) @ 0x000fd238
ACPI: BOOT (v001 DELL    GX270  0x00000007 ASL  0x00000061) @ 0x000fd2a4
ACPI: ASF! (v016 DELL    GX270  0x00000007 ASL  0x00000061) @ 0x000fd2cc
ACPI: DSDT (v001  DELL    dt_ex 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 15:2 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x01] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x01] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x04] lapic_id[0x03] disabled)
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x01] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
Enabling APIC mode:  Flat.  Using 1 I/O APICs
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 1ff00000:ded00000)
Detected 2261.162 MHz processor.
Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 130672
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda7
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes)
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 510524k/522688k available (1541k kernel code, 11568k reserved, 576k data, 196k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4525.97 BogoMIPS (lpj=9051948)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux:  Disabled at boot.
Capability LSM initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00004400 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00004400 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080 00004400 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled
Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Freeing SMP alternatives: 12k freed
ACPI: Core revision 20060707
CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.26GHz stepping 09
Total of 1 processors activated (4525.97 BogoMIPS).
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
Brought up 1 CPUs
migration_cost=0
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 4396k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbaaa, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0
Boot video device is 0000:00:02.0
PCI quirk: region 0800-087f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
PCI quirk: region 0880-08bf claimed by ICH4 GPIO
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices
PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq".  If it helps, post a report
pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0x800-0x85f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0xc00-0xc7f has been reserved
pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0x860-0x8ff could not be reserved
PCI: Ignore bogus resource 6 [0:0] of 0000:00:02.0
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
  IO window: d000-dfff
  MEM window: fea00000-feafffff
  PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 8192)
TCP reno registered
Simple Boot Flag value 0x87 read from CMOS RAM was invalid
Simple Boot Flag at 0x7a set to 0x1
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1230985159.160:1): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:08: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBD] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
PNP: PS/2 controller doesn't have AUX irq; using default 12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 8
NET: Registered protocol family 20
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 196k freed
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
ACPI Exception (acpi_processor-0681): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not present [20060707]
ACPI: Getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x2
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 169, io base 0x0000ff80
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.1.9-k4-NAPI
Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 177, io base 0x0000ff60
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 185, io base 0x0000ff40
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.3[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.3 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 169, io base 0x0000ff20
usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[D] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 193, io mem 0xffa80800
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:0c.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
SCSI subsystem initialized
libata version 2.00 loaded.
e1000: 0000:01:0c.0: e1000_probe: (PCI:33MHz:32-bit) 00:0b:db:8b:3e:ff
e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: version 2.00
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: MAP [ P0 -- P1 -- ]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFE00 ctl 0xFE12 bmdma 0xFEA0 irq 185
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFE20 ctl 0xFE32 bmdma 0xFEA8 irq 185
scsi0 : ata_piix
scsi1 : ata_piix
ICH5: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
ICH5: chipset revision 2
ICH5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
usb 5-8: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 5-8: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hda: Maxtor 6E040L0, ATA DISK drive
usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
input: USB Optical Mouse USB Optical Mouse as /class/input/input1
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [USB Optical Mouse USB Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-2
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: GCR-8481B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 80293248 sectors (41110 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
 hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >
hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Attempting manual resume
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 865 Chipset.
agpgart: Detected 892K stolen memory.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe8000000
intel_rng: FWH not detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.3[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input2
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, using FIFO [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP]
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
zd1211rw 5-8:1.0: firmware version 4605
zd1211rw 5-8:1.0: zd1211 chip 6891:a727 v4330 high 00-14-7c RF2959_RF pa0 g--
zd1211rw 5-8:1.0: eth1
usbcore: registered new driver zd1211rw
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 58233 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
Adding 522072k swap on /dev/hda6.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:522072k
EXT3 FS on hda7, internal journal
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.7.0-ioctl (2006-06-24) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda5, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda8, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [VBTN]
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
[drm] Initialized drm 1.0.1 20051102
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
[drm] Initialized i915 1.5.0 20060119 on minor 0
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
Modprobe zd1211 just says module not found, though modprobe zd1211rw sems to run fine. It doesn't help the situation though.

I've noticed thatwhen I first boot up, the errors in dmesg after I restart the networking scripts all say:

ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready

whereas after I try iwconfig eth1 essid [my essid] key [my key] they say:

eth1: no IPv6 routers present

I don't know if this is relevent.

I also noticed that when I do lsusb on Debian as opposed to Vector, it doesn't show Bus 001 Device 003: ID 6891:a727 3Com 3CRUSB10075 anywhere and that port just looks like an empty one. I have a vague memory of this happening the first time I ever installed Debian but I can't remember if or how I fixed it.

Thanks for the help.

Drakeo 02-03-2009 06:14 PM
this means one thing
Quote:
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
this means that your devices is loaded and it is working but it is not recieving could you do a dhcpcd or dhcp and see what the dmesg out put is.
Quote:
eth1: no IPv6 routers present
means just that there is not a router or a ipv6 router that is sending ipv6 transmission. looks to me everything is working you need to configure the card. or net work. and Why is it not ready because it has not received after sending. so do a lsmod and see if the zd1211rw module is loaded. as you know it takes two thing to make a wifi card to work it is a radio and a ether card. built into one device. real problem is make sure you use the network manager eth1 is perfectly ok. eth0 is you net card and eth1 is your usbnet device. slackware did that also with the 2.6.25 kernel and scripts. it is just a script that gives it a name and links it to a com port.
then do a ifconfig eth1 up then type iwconfig and push enter it will then show if your device is up.

jrichards 02-17-2009 06:50 AM
I've got it working now. It seems that the problem was actually an improper installation of wireless-tools. Apparently I didn't have all of the dependencies and so I took it to a wired network and installed them with aptitude. I hadn't had an error message about the dependencies for some reason.

Thanks for the help :)


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