USB wireless Debian 4.0 etch - no eth device created

[bryan641]

I'm having trouble getting wireless working on a new Debian 4.0 etch install on my Thinkpad T40.

The internal Broadcom wireless 4306 wasn't working with the bcm43xx drivers after extracting firmware with fwcutter, so I tried ndiswrapper, but nothing worked.

So I thought I'd try my MyEssentials ME1001-USB, which was working in my Thinkpad 770 with Debian. When that didn't work either, I tried physically removing the internal broadcom and its entry in /etc/udev/rules.d/z25-persistent-net.rules to see if that helped at all, but it didn't.

When I plug in my wireless USB (MyEssentials ME1001-USB) on my IBM T40, Debian 4.0 etch, I don't get a new ethx, wlanx, wifix, or any other new device.

After plugging it in and issuing "modeprobe zd1211rw" I have reviewed the following: (eth0 is the wired LAN adapter)

 # dmesg
usb 4-3: new high speed USB device using ehci-hcd and address 3
usb 4-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

# lsmod | grep "zd"
zd1211rw            38304  0
ieee80211softmac    26304  1 zd1211rw
ieee80211           29416  2 zd1211rw,pcmcia
usbcode             112644  4 zd1211rw,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd

# iwconfig
lo    no wireless extensions
eth0  no wireless extensions
irda0 no wireless extensions
sit0  no wireless extensions 
  

Any ideas what to look for next?

--Bryan

Kernel: Linux version 2.6.18-5-686 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13)