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News: Glomation introduced new wireless ready low cost GESBC-9260S

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I'm having a strange problem with VIA wifi and the new kernel. . .

If I try to start the wifi at boot using the Debian interfaces file, I get an error.

Configuring network interfaces...Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
    SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument.
Failed to bring up eth1.

The problematic line is the wireless-essid command.

If I use iwconfig on the command line it works fine, or if I put an "up" command in interfaces using iwconfig it works.

My interfaces file:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
   address 10.0.1.190
   netmask 255.255.255.0
   broadcast 10.0.1.255
   gateway 10.0.1.1
   dns-search domain.com
   dns-nameservers 205.171.3.65 205.171.2.53

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
   up iwconfig eth1 essid Seedy  <- this works
#   wireless-essid Seedy  <- this fails with the error
   wireless-mode managed
   etc. . .

Has anyone got any idea why this is happening?

The driver worked without problem in .25 and .27 kernels.

My /etc/modules file loads the driver ok.

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Hello,

I saw in your post that you have made  your wifi module working on your 9260S. I'm rather bad in the kernel compiling (after many tries I've gave up)  I'd like to ask you if you wouldn't mind to send me the uImage file and the vntwusb.ko driver that work?

thanks,

Daniel