There are tons of posts about wireless USB dongles not starting up at boot. None of the "solutions" are working for me (or anybody else for that matter). Here's my story:

Zydas zd1211 usb dongle. Works great, will not start on boot. After boot I have to do a:



then I can mount my network drive. Here's what I've done so far:

/etc/network/interfaces



I've tried moving the zd1211 up and down in /etc/modules, in fact right now it's in about 5 different places there! I've also aliased wlan0 to zd1211 in modules.conf.

I've tried the wlanup script that somebody posted, adding lines to the end of /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh, all to no avail.

One thing to note - sometimes I get a message after doing the ifup command as follows:



and the DCHPREQUEST will keep on failing then later:



and it will hook up, like the module needed some time to load.

Like I mentioned, there are a lot of posts regarding similar problems and I can't seem to find a solution.

Ideas anyone?

Kind of an ugly solutions, but I think that if you add the two commands to the
end of the /etc/pcmcia/network file, it might work for you. If that does not
do it... try putting them at the end of /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh -- I had the same problem
with getting a usb network dongle to start on boot.

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modprobe zd1211
ifup wlan0