Linksys WPC54G

erdinc · Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 2:31 pm Post subject: Linksys WPC54G

Hi everyone,
Last week I bought AP and pcmcia wireless card which comes bundle with AP.
Anyway, I search little bit about this issue and

* Starting pcmcia ...
cardmgr[10218]: watching 1 socket [ ok ]

and lspci output is
0000:02:00.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface

I emerged wireless-tools and acx100 and then iwconfig is;

wlan0 IEEE 802.11b+/g+ ESSID:off/any Nickname:"linksys"
Mode:Auto Frequency:2.412 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:off
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

but whatever I do my wireless card is not able to find any AP? Even when I do "iwconfig wlan0 essid linksys" or anything

I read all topics about it but still no result:?:
Is there anyone who made is without ndiswrapper, cause thank god we have acx

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Ali Erdinç Köroğlu

LoDown · Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:26 pm Post subject:

What is the output from 'iwlist wlan0 scanning'? See if your wireless NIC is even seeing your shiny new AP.

erdinc · Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 7:52 am Post subject:

Sorry for late reply, "iwlist scan" gives me no scan result

I had doubts whetever pcmcia card is working or not I tested on a findomz machine and it was working :cry:

Bytheway I got firmware and I put it /lib/firmware and Im stuck on this point dmes gives me..

codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready [0x1][0x701300]
codec_read 0: semaphore is not ready for register 0x2c
Starting radio scan
Polling for an IRQ FAILED with 0, cmd_status 0, irqs_active 1, irq_status 0. Bailing.
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Ali Erdinç Köroğlu

erdinc · Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 4:57 pm Post subject:

Hi again,
I search little bit about acx 111 Texas Instruments and acx100 is not able to cover irq stuff for TI.
Also you can see in the documentation acx111 still in development, anyway.

I turn to Ndiswrapper, I copy inf and cat files from Linksys WP54G cd to /lib/windrivers
But there is a trick, you should load LSBCMNDS.INF instead of lsbcmnds.inf

ndiswrapper example:

dgrant · Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 8:23 am Post subject:

The power light on my card won't even turn on? It's as if pcmcia isn't even started or something. But the module is installed and the /etc/init.d/ service is started. Can anyone help me?

erdinc · Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 8:53 am Post subject:

Well the lights are working on my system, you get the right INF file and compile your kernel correctly??

Your Kernel Conf should be like:

ScriptBlue · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 3:58 am Post subject:

I have followed everything step that you have outlined here, yet I can't get my NIC to recognized. I too have a WPC54G card and here is my lspci

Crazy Fucker · n00b Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 11 Location: Belgium

you probably have to create the net.wlan0 yourself

just make a link from net.wlan0 to net.lo (this is done with net.eth0 too)

conradin · n00b Joined: 21 Aug 2005 Posts: 1

OK...I am a bsd user for years and had never used wireless except on a winbox.
Equip: Tecra 8100, wireless card WPC54GS

After initial installation, the lights went up, but neither ipconfig nor ifconfig shows the card's existance. Using module cannot find it either...

I used dmesg, cannot find it.

Where and how can I start from here? Should I get rid of the card and use a WPC54G instead?

I decidewd to give gentoo a shot exactly because fbsd is very wireless unfriendly...(even with 5.3).