DWL-520+, acx100 & Kernel 2.6 (Howto)

GaryMercer · Last edited by GaryMercer on Thu Jan 22, 2004 10:36 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi

Hope this is of some use to those trying to get the D-Link DWL-520+ (PCI) card working in kernel 2.6.

Here goes....

1. Go to http://lisas.de/~andi/acx100/
and download the latest version. acx100-0.2.0pre6_plus_fixes_14 was the version I downloaded.

2. Look at the Readme file and you will find the following

kruthles · n00b Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 11 Location: mn

I recently got mine working using steps very close to yours, you saved me the trouble of having to type mine out. I was using a sony vaio and dlink DWL-650+ and it works great

This post should be a lot of help for anybody trying to get a acx100 card and 2.6 working!

GaryMercer · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 10:37 pm Post subject:

I do hope this is useful as it took me ages to find this info out and work out what to do with it.

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GaryMercer · Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 1:55 pm Post subject:

Create this directory /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/wireless/acx100

You do not have to make any subdirs in the directory

From the acx100-0.2.0pre6_plus_fixes_14

copy src/Makefile into /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/wireless/acx100
copy src/*.c into /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/wireless/acx100
copy include/*.h into /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/wireless/acx100

Then edit the file /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/wireless/Makefile and add

obj-m += acx100/

Then do your make menuconfig. You will not see an acx100 option in here, however when you do make to make your bzImage file you will see acx100 being compiled into the kernel.
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GaryMercer · Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 9:55 am Post subject: Starting Automatically

Hello again,

Don't know if anyone is bothered with this (I am quite excited about writing my first RC Script) but I wrote this and added it to my default runlevel

#!/sbin/runscript

start() {
ebegin "Starting Wirless Interface (acx100)"
/usr/bin/startnet
eend $? "Failed to bring up wireless interface (acx100)"
}

stop() {
ebegin "Stopping Wireless Interface (acx100)"
/usr/bin/stopnet
eend $? "Failed to stop wireless interface (acx100)"

I saved it as /etc/init.d/wired
Then rc-update add wired default

Now my DWL-520+ is brought up automatically.
:lol:

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UberLord · Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 10:20 am Post subject:

Why write a wireless networking script when I have already written some?

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=122435

No reason why you can't use them with the acx100 drivers. And if there's a problem, let me know and I'll fix it

GaryMercer · Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 10:24 am Post subject:

TheFueley · Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 1:58 am Post subject:

Holy crap finally! I had given up on that one. The only winblows box I have is because of the AG-520 card I have. Thanks for the info. I'll have to sneaker net the files over of course, but I'll try this out right away.
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TheFueley · Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 6:26 pm Post subject:

Oh wait a minute. I see something about acx100. Is that the chipset? Cause I know that my DWL-AG520 has the Atheros Chipset. Does this tut still apply or am I still stuck?
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eGore911 · Apprentice Joined: 11 Mar 2003 Posts: 290

Great, it works!

UberLord · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 9:21 am Post subject:

TheFueley · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 3:21 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I never had much luck with mad-wifi. I can get it installed no prob. Just getting the setttings to stick is the problem. I enter the settings and get no error. Then I display the settings and they are still blank. I can never get the essid especially to stick. It can never find my AP either. Even if it was sitting next to the AP. The modules are or were loaded too. I gave up on it.
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G|N| · Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2004 1:17 pm Post subject:

i installed the drivers for my d-link 520+ card, i used acx100-0.2.0pre6_plus_fixes_15 that version and the start_net script worksm iwconfig shows my card, i can ping to the ip of the card but when i try to ping to another ip it say's destination host unreachable!

here is my start_net:

niall · n00b Joined: 17 Mar 2004 Posts: 2

Has anyone tried to get this working on an amd 64 box in 64 bit mode?

dpp · n00b Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 3

I installed the acx100 driver in the kernel tree as instructed. However, when I tried to run ./start_net script, I received the message:

M1Sports20 · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 6:24 pm Post subject: Error

I get the same error as above, is there suppose to be a file compile called acx100pci.ko, or something like that
because i don't have any *.o or *.ko files

And if it is a module how do i start it up

Catach · Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 4:38 am Post subject:

I've been trying to compile the acx100 drivers to use my Netgear WG311 v2 card. It seems to compile into the kernel ok (i think):

UberLord · Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 7:02 am Post subject:

Please ensure that you have the wire (non-ham radio) option selected in your kernel, recompile, install, reboot and then re-emerge wireless-tools
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Catach · Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:37 am Post subject:

I think i should be using different drivers as my card is a WG311 v2, not v1. I may end up changing the card itself if I cant get it working. Can you recommend a good card that the madwifi drivers work really well for?
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Gregg_VA · n00b Joined: 08 Apr 2004 Posts: 1

would these instructions also work for the DWL-120+? from what i can find out the 120+, 520+ and 650+ are essentially the same chip but just different interface types (usb, pci, cardbus). can anyone verify that the 120+ works?

sadler121 · n00b Joined: 01 May 2004 Posts: 18 Location: Galesburg,IL

Ok, getting frustrated here, I went through ever step as mentioned above, but when I go to recompile my kernel I get the following:

[code]
make[2]: `scripts/fixdep' is up to date.
scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/i386/Kconfig
drivers/net/Kconfig:2432: can't open file "drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig"
make[2]: *** [silentoldconfig] Error 1
make[1]: *** [silentoldconfig] Error 2
make: *** [include/linux/autoconf.h] Error 2
[code]

Whats wrong here?[/code]

eGore911 · Apprentice Joined: 11 Mar 2003 Posts: 290

I'm not sure if it is related, but try the latest version from here
http://lisas.de/~andi/acx100/acx100-0.2.0pre8_plus_fixes_3.tar.bz2

Look at the README inside and follow the steps mentioned there. It worked fine for me.