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PostPosted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 8:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

TheNull wrote:
Thank you very much Chaosite.
I remember like 8 months ago, I tried to get this driver working for 3 days straight and failed. However with your walkthrough, it took a grand total of 5 minutes.

Once again, thanks alot, and thanks to the acx100 driver dev team =D


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No problem, glad to be useful.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 1:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I followed the "inside the kernel" path but I get this when I attempt to compile:

Code:
  CC      drivers/net/8139too.o
drivers/net/wireless/acx/Makefile:3: ACX_DEBUG was not defined, assuming 1
drivers/net/wireless/acx/Makefile:8: ACX_IO_WIDTH was not defined, assuming 16bit access
  LD      drivers/net/wireless/acx/built-in.o
  CC [M]  drivers/net/wireless/acx/acx100.o
drivers/net/wireless/acx/acx100.c: In function `acx100_probe_pci':
drivers/net/wireless/acx/acx100.c:749: error: too many arguments to function `pci_save_state'
drivers/net/wireless/acx/acx100.c: In function `acx100_resume':
drivers/net/wireless/acx/acx100.c:1032: error: too many arguments to function `pci_restore_state'
make[4]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/acx/acx100.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/acx] Error 2
make[2]: *** [drivers/net/wireless] Error 2
make[1]: *** [drivers/net] Error 2
make: *** [drivers] Error 2
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 2:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

hey ive manage dot get my wireless working but after every reboot gentoo 'forgets' my essid meaning i have to manually reset it and then restart /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 after every reboot...where can i set it to work on boot up??? i also dont appear to have a /etc/conf.d/wireless file??? is this bad???/ sorry for bein so ignorant:/
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 5:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I get this when I attempt to compile. Same error when compiled in or outside of the kernel.

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  CC      drivers/net/8139too.o
drivers/net/wireless/acx/Makefile:3: ACX_DEBUG was not defined, assuming 1
drivers/net/wireless/acx/Makefile:8: ACX_IO_WIDTH was not defined, assuming 16bit access
  LD      drivers/net/wireless/acx/built-in.o
  CC [M]  drivers/net/wireless/acx/acx100.o
drivers/net/wireless/acx/acx100.c: In function `acx100_probe_pci':
drivers/net/wireless/acx/acx100.c:749: error: too many arguments to function `pci_save_state'
drivers/net/wireless/acx/acx100.c: In function `acx100_resume':
drivers/net/wireless/acx/acx100.c:1032: error: too many arguments to function `pci_restore_state'
make[4]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/acx/acx100.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/acx] Error 2
make[2]: *** [drivers/net/wireless] Error 2
make[1]: *** [drivers/net] Error 2
make: *** [drivers] Error 2
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 10:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

feardapenguin wrote:
I followed the "inside the kernel" path but I get this when I attempt to compile:


Kernel version?
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 10:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

megz wrote:
hey ive manage dot get my wireless working but after every reboot gentoo 'forgets' my essid meaning i have to manually reset it and then restart /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 after every reboot...where can i set it to work on boot up??? i also dont appear to have a /etc/conf.d/wireless file??? is this bad???/ sorry for bein so ignorant:/
thanx


Get the latest maksed/keyworded baselayout, and look at /etc/conf.d/wireless.example. This is not related to getting the ACX card to work, anyway.

Theres a thread about wireless startup the Gentoo way, go there, they'll be able to help you more.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 10:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Chaosite wrote:
Kernel version?


Sorry I didn't include that. I'm running ck-sources-2.6.10-r1.

Code:
# emerge info
Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10-ck1 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.10-ck1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X acl alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups encode esd fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 ipv6 jpeg libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl spell ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib"
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 1:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Interesting. Same error on another box. Note that the kernel used is the same as the previous box.

Code:
[/usr/share/acx100]# ACX_IO_WIDTH="32" make && make install
Kernel version file: /lib/modules/2.6.10-ck1/build/include/linux/version.h
Kernel configuration file: /lib/modules/2.6.10-ck1/build/.config
Make damn sure these really match your currently running kernel!!

Kernel configuration found, performing sanity checks
All of the following items are required by the driver:
    Loadable modules support is enabled.
    Wireless LAN (non-hamradio) support is enabled.
    Wireless extensions support is enabled.
The following is needed for PCMCIA/CardBus cards:
    PCMCIA support is DISABLED.
    CardBus support is DISABLED.
The following is needed for USB card support:
    USB support is enabled.
The following is needed for PCI card support:
    PCI support is enabled.
Kernel configuration satisfies the minimum requirements, continuing.
Wireless header file is WIRELESS_EXT version 17.
Configured with: /var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.4.3-r1/work/gcc-3.4.3/configure --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.4.3 --includedir=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.3/include --datadir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.3 --mandir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.3/man --infodir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.3/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.3/include/g++-v3 --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --disable-altivec --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --with-system-zlib --disable-checking --disable-werror --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disable-multilib --disable-libgcj --enable-languages=c,c++,f77
gcc version 3.4.3 20041125 (Gentoo Linux 3.4.3-r1, ssp-3.4.3-0, pie-8.7.7)
Running linux 2.6.10-ck1
Compile info: will choose to use code infrastructure for NEWER wireless extension interface version (>= 13)
Symmetric multiprocessing support (CONFIG_SMP) is disabled.
make -C src
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/share/acx100/src'
if test -n ; then \
mkdir -p /usr/share/acx100/src/tmp; \
cp /lib/modules/2.6.10-ck1/build/.config /usr/share/acx100/src/tmp; \
fi
# use "make V=1" to see full compile execution
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.10-ck1/build SUBDIRS=/usr/share/acx100/src  \
        MODVERDIR=/usr/share/acx100/src WLAN_HOSTIF=WLAN_PCI modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.10-ck1'
  CC [M]  /usr/share/acx100/src/acx100.o
In file included from /usr/share/acx100/src/acx100.c:100:
/usr/share/acx100/src/../include/acx100.h:1453: warning: `packed' attribute ignored
In file included from /usr/share/acx100/src/acx100.c:105:
/usr/share/acx100/src/../include/idma.h:151: warning: `packed' attribute ignored
/usr/share/acx100/src/acx100.c: In function `acx100_probe_pci':
/usr/share/acx100/src/acx100.c:749: error: too many arguments to function `pci_save_state'
/usr/share/acx100/src/acx100.c: In function `acx100_resume':
/usr/share/acx100/src/acx100.c:1032: error: too many arguments to function `pci_restore_state'
make[3]: *** [/usr/share/acx100/src/acx100.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/usr/share/acx100/src] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.10-ck1'
make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/acx100/src'
make: *** [driver] Error 2

Code:
# emerge info
Portage 2.0.51-r8 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.10-ck1 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.10-ck1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.8
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5,dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Jun  5 2004, 00:28:26)]
dev-lang/python:     2.2.3-r5, 2.3.4
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r2, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.7.9, 1.9.3
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r2
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
LDFLAGS=""
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X acl alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups emacs encode esd fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls odbc oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres python quicktime readline ruby sdl session slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 7:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Finally got this card working. Had to revert to acx100-0.2.0pre6_plus_fixes_14. Still don't know why pre8 wouldn't compile.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 5:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you need WEP support you can download http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/

TI has an agreement which lets TI Chipsets use the utility for free (no cost).

I know someone is going to complain about it not being GPL so if you want both kinds of free and are up for a challenge to try and get NdisWrapper working use http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

I couldn't get NdisWrapper working so good luck if you try.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 3:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hi guys,

i just try to get this working on a notebook that has nothing but wireless support (over pcmcia)

i compiled the driver but it "does not work"

my guess is that i didnt compiled all needed stuff in kernel.
can someone tell me what is required on kernel side to get DWL-650+
working with acx100 ?

thanks in advance,
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 4:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am using a Buffallo 54G card.
Under lspci, it is displayed as:
Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface
And it is working flawlessly with NdisWrapper.
I urge everyone to give it a try!!!
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 9:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What, give ndiswrapper a try? Don't do that.
Use the native drivers. Yes, its worth giving up WEP.

Anyway, its in Portage now! All thank yous should go to genstef for writing the ebuild.

USB isn't working yet, but for the rest, just `emerge acx100` :) (Well, its ~x86, but you get the basic idea...)
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 10:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

thats really cool news.

i brought it also to life, but atm it still locks up with DWL-650+
sadly this is no single happening, i read in acx_pci bugbase of oterh dwl-650+ users with lockups and added also my information.

if you have informations how to solve this please tell


- i followed craigs config guide
- i compiled the acx100_pci module
- i start_net -> it connects OK. i can ping my other
machines for 1000 times without lockup.
- now that was strange because when i tried to download
software it crashed very soon.
the normal ping size is 56 bytes. increasing to 640 it still
worked. when i increased to 6400 it locked up imediately
when sending the ping.
so my guess is that the bug is related to the packet size.
maybe we could trigger that by the MTU setting in the start_net

i was testing pre8_43 and pre8_44

hm no, it was not affected. i can see debug information
when it hangs and i remove the pcmcia card:
Code:

oops: 0000[#1]
PREEMPT
Modules linked in: acx_pci
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060[<c59bc8a3>} Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS 00010206 (2.6.9)
EIP is at acx_handle_tx_error+0x83/0x1e0 [acx_pci]
eax: ffffffff ebx: c1370000 ecx: c0403f5c edx: c5868000
esi: c59c1f7d edi: c59eab80 ebp: c1370000 esp: c0403f64
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068

Ürpcess wget(pid: 6539, threadinfo c0403000 task= c4a76020)
Stack: 00000006 c1372d3d c1370000 00000008b c59eab80
00000007 c1372d3c c59be855
c1370000 c59eab80 00000010 00000003 0000003 006eaf9c
0000007c 00000004
c58600002 c1370000 c58680000 00000013 c59ea056 c1370000
c4ffa000 c4e17bc0
Call Trace
Stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace
Code 93 dc 00 00 00 66 8b 40 0c 25 ff ff 00 00 01 d0 66 c7
00 04 00 31 c0 8a 47 26 a8 30 75 0a 83 c4 10 5b 5e 5f c3 8d
76 00 8b 47 18 <8b> 50 1c 8b 42 04 89 44 24 02 66 8b 42 08
66 89 44 24 06 6a 00
<0>Kernel panic - not syncing:  Fatal exception in interrupt

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 9:17 am    Post subject: no new device after modprobe acx_pci Reply with quote

Hi!

// solved
I am using a Netgear WG311v2 which I expected to work following this thread.
It just seemed to work 'till i got to Step 6a. After typing modprobe acx_pci, modprobe doesn't give any message and there is no new card (wlan0) appearing.
I'm using Dev-Sources 2.6.10 (Wireless extensions activated) and the acx100 0.2 pre8 plus fixes 45 drivers. I downloaded ACX111 firmware via the given script and saved it to /usr/share/acx.
When trying to inject the driver into the kernel the script gives me the message
Code:
Process successfully completed. Enjoy it!
But when going to my kernel sources and doing make menuconfig there is no new device in the menu.

Do you have any idea what I could do to make it work?

...Don't ask me why, but after completely re-doing it seems to work. The AP can't be found, but that schould be solveable
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 6:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

really nice howto, i do get to the point where i get the wlan0 interface to show up correctly, but scanning fails with the following error message:
Code:
wlan0     Interface doesn't support scanning : Resource temporarily unavailable


Anybody experienced something likes this yet?
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 5:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

jhgz1 wrote:
really nice howto, i do get to the point where i get the wlan0 interface to show up correctly, but scanning fails with the following error message:
Code:
wlan0     Interface doesn't support scanning : Resource temporarily unavailable


Anybody experienced something likes this yet?


Yes. Try ifconfig wlan0 up. I have to do this to see the access point. Some times I have to reload the acx_pci module.

There is an ebuild now. I can see the access point but I cannot associate with it.

Ciao,

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 4:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi!

first of all,thanks for that howto.

I habe a D-Link DWL-G520+ (Texas Instruments ACX111)
Since the driver acx100 is in portage now I installed the driver with emerge acx100. after loading the module acx_pci i am able to configure the device with iwconfig wlan0.

But I have one problem. I'm not able to connect to an access point. I tried it with the following command:
Code:
iwconfig wlan0 essid MYSSID mode managed channel 8 key s:MYKEY

iwconfig shows this:
Code:
IEEE 802.11b+/g+ ESSID:"MYSSID" Nickname:"acx100 v0.2.0pre8"
Mode:Managed Channel:8 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate=54Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity=1/3
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off
Encryption Key:MYKEYINHEX Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal Level:0 Noise Level:0


dhcpcd wlan0 doesn't get an IP.
If I set an IP maually it doesn't woork anyway.

Any Ideas?

thanks!
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 1:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi all
This seems a pretty old thread. Is it relevant today or is there a more up to date one? Also how do you turn SMP off? I noticed this warning but I don't know how to do it. Also I have a pcmcia safecom cardbus card.

My installation, following this thread went as far as the iwconfig wlan0 essid foo line and when I enter my details as far as I know, the system froze.

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi!

You should just emerge acx100 and modprobe the module. I don't know exactly how it is called since I use pci. It should be something like acx_pcmcia.

To disable the smp:
Code:
cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig
Processor type and features -->
    [  ]Symmetric multi-processing support


If the system still freezes you could try to emerge the ~x86 version of acx100.

I also noticed, that the module doesn't compile with kernelversion 2.6.14.

If everything works you can set all settings in /etc/conf.d/wireless and make a symlink to /etc/init.d/net.lo called /etc/init.d/net.wlan0. Type
Code:
rc-update add net.wlan0 default
to start wireless networking at boot time.

Hope this helps!
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I forgot:

When emerging acx100 add "pcmcia" to your use-flags!
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 1:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi dreadhead and all

I have tried to follow this thread to the letter but can't get the access point up. I have tried 2.6.14 but couldn't compile or emerge acx100.

Back to 2.6.13 and USE="pcmcia" emerge acx100 and that went ok and loaded the modules but still can't get the access point

ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:98:FC:76:09
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:5

laptop ~ # iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11b+/g+ ESSID:"SWART2-54125" Nickname:"acx100 v0.2.0pre8"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity=1/3
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off
Encryption key:6162-6364-6566-6700-0000-0000-00 Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

I tried ifconfig wlan0 up and also dhcpcd wlan0 but didn't help.

iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Resource temporarily unavailable

I noticed when compiling or emerging acx100 that it was looking for a file called RADIO16, but there are no file by this name. I fetched the firmware files. Perhaps it's something to do with the firmware files because as far as I know I followed this how to to the T. I also tried Craig's howto on another site but that had the same bother with access points using net-start.

Could someone tell me how to clean the system of all old driver including ndiswrapper stuff, perhaps it's this. I tried to clean as much as possible but maybe some stuff left? And lastly if I had an ethernet connection up as I had would that affect setting up wlan0?


Help! but it's nearly time to give up.

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 6:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

iwconfig tellls me that the driver has loaded successfully.

I noticed that scanning doesn't work before an IP is set to the interface.
Try setting an IP with ifconfig (choose the one it would get from dhcp). After that retry scanning. It should work.

look at the output from dhclient. It tells if the card doesn't find any access points or is just unable to connect.

To remove all ndiswrapper stuff emerge -C ndiswrappper should be enough.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

jhgz1 wrote:
really nice howto, i do get to the point where i get the wlan0 interface to show up correctly, but scanning fails with the following error message:
Code:
wlan0     Interface doesn't support scanning : Resource temporarily unavailable


Anybody experienced something likes this yet?


i have the same issue and ive been workin on it for about a weeknow.. whats the verdict?
how do i solve this issue?!
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 7:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

dreadhead wrote:
I noticed that scanning doesn't work before an IP is set to the interface.


So type
Code:
ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.1
or any other IP.
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