zd1211 reports as a wired interface

[Scott Bronson]

My zd1211-based USB device works like a charm in Dapper. However, Network Manager thinks it's a wired interface!

This is a similar report:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2005-November/msg00066.html

This may be an upstream bug but don't know whether it should go to the LKML or NM lists. That's why I'm reporting this bug here.

(:ast apt-get upgrade was yesterday, on the 8th, running this on an older Athlon 1800).

[Scott Bronson (bronson)]

I just noticed that iwconfig reports "no wireless extensions" for this card until "ifconfig up" is called. That would probably explain why nm thinks it's a wired device.

[Simos Xenitellis  (simosx)]

Do you use WEP with zd1211?

I could not get it work and several other people have issues:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=135682&highlight=zd1211

The driver version that I got with Dapper Flight 6 is 2005-03-15, which is a year old. There are several revisions to the driver that make it much more robust.

[Simos Xenitellis  (simosx)]

Created bug report about the oldness of the driver, at bug 37795.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Does the new driver behave differently in this respect, such that network-manager would recognize it as a wireless interface? If so, this can be marked as a duplicate

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for network-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]