[zd1211-devs] ZyAir G-220 PPC Debian

[Wong J. <dd...@gm...>]

Hi guys!  I am a newbie in using wireless in Linux PPC.  I just bought
a ZyAir G-220 USB dongle for my Powerbook G4.  My kernel is 2.6.16 and
the zd1211 module is from apt-get.

When I plugged the dongle in I can see zd1211 module is loaded and I
can also see wlan0 from ifconfig -a.

1.) I can see my AP detail with "iwlist scanning".

wlan0     Scan completed :
      =09Cell 01 - Address: 00:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
      =09ESSID:"baby"
     =09Mode:Master
     =09Frequency=3D2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
      =09Extra:SignalStrength=3D0%,LinkQuality:44%
     =09Encryption key:on
     =09Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
     =099 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
     =0948 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
=09Extra:bcn_int=3D100

2.) And then I setup the ESSID, mode and key using the following command

iwconfig wlan0 ESSID "baby"
iwconfig wlan0 mode "managed"
iwconfig wlan0 key s:password



3.)If I typed the command "iwconfig" it gave the info as below

wlan0     802.11b/g NIC  ESSID:"baby"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency=3D2.437 GHz
          Access Point: 00:XX:Xx:XX:XX:XX
          Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
          Retry:off   RTS thr=3D2432 B   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=3D20/100  Signal level=3D-132 dBm
          Noise level=3D-256 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0





However, when I run dhclient on it it gave the following error.

     eth1: unknown hardware address type 24
     eth1: unknown hardware address type 24
     Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:a0:c5:9a:be:19
     Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:a0:c5:9a:be:19
     Sending on   Socket/fallback/fallback-net
     DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
     ip length 328 disagrees with bytes received 325.
     DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20
     ip length 328 disagrees with bytes received 325.
     DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
     ip length 328 disagrees with bytes received 325.
     DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16
     ip length 328 disagrees with bytes received 325.
     DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
     ip length 328 disagrees with bytes received 325.
     5 udp packets in 5 too long - dropped
     No DHCPOFFERS received.
     No working leases in persistent database.



I tried removing the WEP password from the AP but the error is still
the same.  Manual IP config didn't work as well.

My AP is working very well with other laptop.  Also, this G-220 is
tested working on another laptop with different OS.

I searched from this email archive and I saw people successful
installed it by upgrading every package and kernel but it didn't work
on mine.

Please give me some advices.


thx
Jones