[ Ubuntu-BD ] Feisty install question... WiFi

[Ammar Karim]

Hi all,

First a background to my story:

I have an old zd1211 USB Wireless G adapter for my computer. When I came
back from canada and tried using it in windows, it did not work for some
reason and would not connect to my home wifi network. The wifi network is
connected to an always on ISP that gives me 7KB/s downlink. I had installed
feisty fawn (7.04) then, on the computer, and
I could see Feisty showing me the wireless adapter working, detecting the
wireless
network, but just as in Windows, NOT connecting to my wireless network.

A few days ago I took out my WiFi adapter and plugged it into my mother's
desktop again... and this time through windows I somehow got it working.

Inbetween I have not used Ubuntu for months, so I thought I'd install feisty
again and try out the WiFi adapter.

However now that I install Feisty again, I dont get the wireless network to
come up automatically. I end up needing to download the driver and
installing it, and even then it does not show up in the "Network" list along
with "Wired Connection" and "Modem Connection". Secondly, I have to use
Cyberoam client to connect to the internet off this computer if I need to
download the WiFi
driver. Problem with Cyberoam is that it lets my mother use 35 hours a
month at a 32kbps download bandwidth which is excruciatingly slow for
downloading update
packages.

The driver is a deb package in the universe repositories called
"zd1211-source". What I have done inbetween is download some of the deb
packages (including the driver .deb package) and stored it in a directory in
a separate FAT-32 drive. Previously I had tried copying those files to the
/var/apt/cache directory and trying to get synaptic to install the USB WiFi
driver, but its never worked. I got stuck with Feisty wanting to install
scores of Software update packages.

Now I am reinstalling Feisty now. I want to find out is there any sureshot
way of getting the wifi to work, even before I
configure the wired lan to connect to the internet? Feisty CD gives me
an option "Install from
Driver CD" option. Is there any way I can use this... given some of my
old packages sitting in the backup drive?

And a general question I'm wondering is - is the zd1211 driver meant to be
somehow included and in the linux kernel?

Thanks for any help,

Ammar
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