Trying to install the dwl-520+...

dfuse · 08-29-2003, 11:40 AM

Hey, I'm one of those who bought a dwl-520+. I have looked around alot and stumbled upon this page: http://www.hack.gr/users/panxer/wireless/
I'm trying to install that driver on Gentoo 2.4.20 . When I come to step 5, making an alias for the acx100_pci, and I run modules-update (Gentoo specific), I get the error: Depmod (or moddep):Unresolved symbols in acx100_pci.o
Can somebody tell me if I forgot something that the author of the site thought was evident for non-noobies? (and me being a noobie) or am I just out of luck?

finegan · 08-31-2003, 08:49 PM

The module is a half-binary mess either originally compiled against a Mandrake or RH patched kernel, by a wireless reseller in taiwan named "eusso.com", so its a bit of a mess. Ignore the depmod error, its just means some hashs didn't match up, if the module loads, good luck, also remember that it doesn't handle iwconfig commands real well after the device is up.

Craig documents this pretty well:

www.houseofcraig.net

Cheers,

Finegan

dfuse · 08-31-2003, 08:53 PM

Thanks for the reply! I already made it work with the oss driver though, which worked without any major problems.

finegan · 08-31-2003, 08:59 PM

oss driver? that usually refers to sound cards... uh, did you mean this guy?

http://acx100.sourceforge.net

The open source, black-boxed, from the ground up driver? Is that working out for you? Does it handle managed and ad-hoc modes? The last I checked that was in alpha.

Cheers,

Finegan

dfuse · 08-31-2003, 09:03 PM

Yes I meant that, don't know where I got that oss from... When I checked the forum I thought it would never work seeing all kinds of problems, but after downloading, compiling and running it, it immediately worked! I don't know about ad-hoc & managed (don't even know what that is), but I know in my start script for the driver I saw managed. I use my DWL-520+ with a DI-614+ router in what is called in Windows Infrastructure mode, don't know if you know enough with this info to answer your questions?

finegan · 08-31-2003, 09:09 PM

That's working in managed... cool, back when I last poked at them it only worked in ad-hoc and was kinda alpha.

Cheers,

Finegan

dfuse · 08-31-2003, 09:12 PM

It's still in early alpha though, it's version 0.1h now.