Hawking HWP54G ACX111
 

So I'm sort of a newbie when it comes to linux. I can poke around here and there and sorta understand whats going on but as far as setting up a wireless card, I'm lost.

I followed Craigs howto on setting up acx111 drivers and everything. The device is recognized and wlan0 is set up just fine. The only problem is that it won't associate with an AP or won't find any APs when scanning. I'm positive that my AP is set up correctly because my laptop finds it just fine. Signal strength shouldn't be a problem...they are only about 10 feet apart.

I'm sure it is something simple that I am missing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

Matt

Matt, I was able to use Craig's to bring up my acx111 driver on Mandrake 10.0 and 10.1 (but it did take a little effort, especially the first time). This may not be your problem, but it took a little digging to discover that I did not have a dhcp client installed by default. Once I did that I was able to make associations with the router. But that was the last problem. Before that, I discovered that often (maybe every other time I started ./start_net), I would loose the irq to which the wireless card was attached. I have no idea what that's about, but what was interesting is that 10.0 dropped it silently. 10.1 at least told me something. If/when that occurred, although I didn't realize it, I was not going to be able to use the wireless without rebooting, even for scanning. There must be another work-around involving the sacrifice of small kitchen appliances, but, assuming everything else is ok, the script will sometimes fail on it's second invocation.
But before that, as you probably have already, go down the list of possible disconnects, like the channel number specified in the script matching the router's channel, any WEP encoding number, try a lower speed at first, make sure it's in 'managed' mode, make sure (like in my case) no bathroom pipes are in between the router and the wireless, futzing the signal, try turning off any firewall or security the router has provided, etc.
Oh yeah - the IP changed on me once, which showed me how well the security features on the router worked. It was only doing what I told it to do... ;>
Good luck.

revision
 

What revision of the card do you have? Looking on the box I have rev T, not sure if it makes a huge difference but Hawking had a driver update on their website with some new firmware so I think I may give that a shot to. How do I check to see if the IRQ is getting dropped from the card? As far as dhcp goes I have a regular LAN card hooked up which gets a dhcp address just fine, so *I think* that is working. Thanx again for your help.

Matt