If you do an strace on ifconfig as it is bringing the interface up you will see the device that the driver is looking for to load the firmware and not finding. i am not that expert to know what it is , but i have found a way around the problem for all drivers that have this firmware loading problem, and that is to use the facility available to compile the firmware "blob" directly into the kernel.. Firmware to match was available from non-free. using that firmware with a kernel containing zd1211 was not satisfactory and the solution was to use the firmware available from sourceforge. the situation has changed. zd1211 is in the kernel and the firmware in lenny non-free is fine.. Wlan usb device zd1211 doesn't show up in iwconfig i've just installed arch 0.8 and i'm having trouble using a wireless usb device based on the zd1211 chipset. under modules in my rc.conf there is zd1211rw wich should be the driver for my zd1211-device that comes with the kernel i think..
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