Re: [zd1211-devs] 3CRUSB10075 card - settings at startup

[Daniel D. <ds...@ge...>]

ocset wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am running SUSE 10.2 (32bit) with a 3COM 3CRUSB10075 card and  I am having
> a problem with getting the wireless setting to be applied at startup. When I
> boot up the machine, the card gets recognised by the zd1211rw driver but the
> ESSID and WEP key are always blank and have to be reset manually. All of the
> settings are present in the /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan-bus-usb and
> ifcfg-eth-id-00:17:31:91:ec:03 files but these just seem to be ignored and I
> then have to do it manually using iwconfig.

If it works fine manually then you are dealing with a distro bug.

> Also, I have tried the SimplyMEPIS version of Linux just to see how it
> handles the usb card and I noticed that in contrast to the SUSE zd1211rw
> driver, it uses a zd1211 - is there a difference?. 

Yes, see http://zd1211.ath.cx for descriptions of the different drivers.

 > I also noticed that when
> SUSE is booted up, none of the lights on the usb driver work even though the
> wireless network is connected and working. Under MEPIS, the light all come
> on and I can immediately see if I am connected and if there is network
> activity . Any idea why what seems to be the same driver gives different
> results?

If suse uses zd1211rw and mepis uses zd1211 then they are not the same 
driver.

Daniel