Verdex && Belkin 802.11
Posted by Motoma
With a lot of grunting and groaning, a good amount of grepping through forum posts, and gallons of patience (coffee), I have finally got my verdex board to acknowledge my Belkin F5D7050 and bring the interface up. Due to a small bug in the zd1211rw drivers, the device needs to be brought up before an ESSID can be assigned to it. Without doing so, I would receive a permission denied error for a majority of the iwconfig options:
Error for wireless request "Set <option name>" (<related option code>) :
SET failed on device <wireless device> ; Operation not permitted.
For me, the hack I used to fix it was:
ifconfig eth0 up
iwconfig eth0 essid any
ifup eth0
I put these files in a shell script, and firing it off brings my interface up without problems.EDIT: After rereading the discussion threads, I discovered that this is a bug in the softmac implementation, not zd1211rw.
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