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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

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

root@kali:~# ifconfig wlan0 up

ioctl(SIOCSIFFLAGS) failed: No such file or directory

airmon-ng / airodump-ng

root@kali:/root# 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:/root# airodump-ng mon0
ioctl(SIOCSIFFLAGS) failed: No such file or directory

dmesg | tail

[  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.