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smellycheeseboy
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 Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 11:45 am Post subject: acx100 problems, no wlan0 device |
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I recently got a D-Link DWL-650+ wireless card and was unaware of the problems with this chipset (acx100).
I followed this forum https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=119681.
The modules loads up fine but when I do it says there is no such device.
My dmesg says:
| Code: | acx100: It looks like you were coaxed into buying a wireless network card
acx100: that uses the mysterious ACX100 chip from Texas Instruments.
acx100: You should better have bought e.g. a PRISM(R) chipset based card,
acx100: since that would mean REAL vendor Linux support.
acx100: Given this info, it's evident that this driver is quite EXPERIMENTAL,
acx100: thus your mileage may vary. Visit http://acx100.sf.net for support.
acx100_init_module: TI acx100_pci.o: Ver 0.2.0pre6 Loaded
acx100_init_module: dev_info is: TI acx100_pci
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 -> 0003)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
Found ACX100-based wireless network card, phymem1:0xfbbfd000, phymem2:0xfbc00000, irq:11, mem1:0xcf9b4000, mem1_size:4096, mem2:0xcf9b6000, mem2_size:65536 compiled with wireless extensions v16
acx100_probe_pci: using acx100 io resource adresses (size: 96)
hw_unavailable = 1
reset hw_unavailable++
acx100_reset_mac: enable soft reset...
acx100_reset_mac: disable soft reset and go to init mode...
ERROR: no directory for firmware file specified, ABORTING. Make sure to set module parameter 'firmware_dir'! (specified as absolute path!)
acx100_reset_dev: Failed to upload firmware to the ACX100
acx100_probe_pci: TI acx100_pci: MAC initialize failure!
acx100_pci: probe of 0000:02:00.0 failed with error -5 |
Thanks for the help.
Me
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dfuse
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 1:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | ERROR: no directory for firmware file specified, ABORTING. Make sure to set module parameter 'firmware_dir'! (specified as absolute path!) |
It seems there's something wrong with your firmware directory. I've used the same card for a while without any problems ever with 2.4 using the acx100 driver, so don't give up, the card is capable of working very good under Linux. |
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smellycheeseboy
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| Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 12:47 am Post subject: |
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I thought that I specified the firmware location because I did this. | Code: | | modprobe acx100_pci firmware_dir=/lib/modules/2.6.0/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/acx100/firmware |
I thought that this pointed to the firmware directory. Am I wrong or do you have to modprobe that everytime you use it?
Me
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dfuse
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| Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 9:32 am Post subject: |
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| I can't help you there any further. I used 2.4, and all I had to do was specify the firmware when compiling the driver, after that I just had to execute the script for the driver every time I booted. In the end I just switched back to my regular ethernet card, much faster. |
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