Thread title: USB WiFi Card (zd1211rw) SIOCSIFFLAGS error.
Hello, I have a HDD install of 32 bit Kali 1.0 with GNOME as a WM. Recently I bought a SMCWUSB-G 802.11bg which uses the zd1211rw chipset and I am having some trouble getting it to run properly on Kali Linux (This adapter however was tested on Ubuntu 10.04 and was confirmed as working).
Below is some output of a few commands:
iwconfig
Code:
root@kali:~# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
ifconfig
Code:
root@kali:~# ifconfig wlan0 up
ioctl(SIOCSIFFLAGS) failed: No such file or directory
airmon-ng / airodump-ng
Code:
root@kali:/home# airmon-ng start wlan0
Found 2 processes that could cause trouble.
If airodump-ng, aireplay-ng or airtun-ng stops working after
a short period of time, you may want to kill (some of) them!
PID Name
885 dhclient3
1527 dhclient3
Process with PID 1527 (dhclient3) is running on interface wlan0
Interface Chipset Driver
wlan0 Zydas zd1211rw - [phy0]SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
(monitor mode enabled on mon0)
root@kali:/home# airodump-ng mon0
ioctl(SIOCSIFFLAGS) failed: No such file or directory
dmesg | tail
Code:
[ 877.911195] device mon0 entered promiscuous mode
[ 880.650405] usb 1-1: Could not load firmware file zd1211/zd1211b_ub. Error number -2
[ 880.650413] zd1211rw 1-1:1.0: couldn't load firmware. Error number -2
[ 959.639458] usb 1-1: Could not load firmware file zd1211/zd1211b_ub. Error number -2
[ 959.639469] zd1211rw 1-1:1.0: couldn't load firmware. Error number -2
[ 965.210303] usb 1-1: Could not load firmware file zd1211/zd1211b_ub. Error number -2
[ 965.210310] zd1211rw 1-1:1.0: couldn't load firmware. Error number -2
[ 965.210322] device mon0 entered promiscuous mode
[ 968.347700] usb 1-1: Could not load firmware file zd1211/zd1211b_ub. Error number -2
[ 968.347716] zd1211rw 1-1:1.0: couldn't load firmware. Error number -2
I have found similar issues here:
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...ad.php?t=40582
http://wiki.debian.org/zd1211rw
Thank you for any help, it is greatly appreciated.