Installing wireless card ACX111 ubuntu 8.04
I have Kubuntu 8.04 Hardy Herron installed and its all running fine. But I've just moved home and need to use wireless, so I've got a wireless card that uses the acx111 chipset.
Loading ubuntu from a livecd automatically sets up this wireless card, however in my installed Kubuntu I don't know what I need to do to get it working. Is there a way of telling ubuntu that it needs to install the hardware? I've tried a few things like modprobe and insmod to load the driver, but I dont really know what im doing and wlan0 doesnt appear only eth0 and lo for my network interfaces. I've searched the internet but can't really find anything useful to explain how to do it or any guides. Thanks in advance |
These links may be useful:
http://acx100.sourceforge.net/ http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page But the wiki says "The current stable release of the ACX "plain driver" is v0.3.38, which does not support WPA." so maybe that is not the way to go. locate acx111 on my kubuntu 8.04 install shows a lot of /lib/firmware/2.6.24-19-generic/acx/2.3.1.31/tiacx111c19 files, so I expect (k)ubuntu is using ndiswrapper (a way of using the windows drivers under linux) to use this chipset. Try searching for acx111 ndiswrapper debian or ubuntu (which is debian-based, so instructions for debian are likely to work) and I expect you'll find a HOWTO. |
Ok, so I've just tried ndiswrapper following this guide http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=434983
I followed the guide, it all seems to go fine, however nothing links the card to an interface IE I cant access wlan0 to control the card and its not visible in knetworkmanager. Code:
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up here is the output of some commands that might be helpful. Code:
ndiswrapper -l Code:
ifconfig Code:
iwconfig |
All I can suggest is that you: read /var/log/messages - there may be error messages
Try another guide, and follow that Try finding a different version of the windows firmware (some are reported as broken) If you are using a 64-bit kernel, it will not work at all |
Yes, you were right about 64bit.
Code:
dmesg This is what I did to get it working incase anyone else has a similar problem. First I removed ndiswrapper Code:
sudo modprobe -r ndiswrapper Then to load the driver Code:
sudo modprobe acx http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/F...8fc2095a08a9f3 I downloaded the appropriate driver (just the one they recommend) and then from what was said in dmesg gave away which driver it was looking for and where. In my ubuntu system the file needed to be placed in /lib64/firmware/2.6.24-18-generic/acx/1.2.1.34/ Then you have to stop Knetworkmanager if you are using it as it doesn't properly communicated with the acx drivers, and manually configure it (there is probably a better way but this will do for me now) Code:
sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid NETGEAR |
*EDIT: Also had to remove acx from the blacklist that prevents it from been loaded when ndiswrapper was installed
(sorry pressed reply instead of edit) |
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I liked your posted error message: Quote:
Because you are (currently) unable to use WAP encryption, you really should set up a firewall on every PC connected to your network. The GUI-based ones are simplest to get right. A badly configured firewall is probably worse than none at all, because it can give a false sense of security. Enabling only connections from known hardware MAC addresses in your router will help keep out casual snoopers, but MAC addresses are very easy to sniff and spoof, so this is only a mild deterrent. You may think there is nothing of interest on your PC, but trust me there will be plenty (Your name, address, postcode, utility company details, possibly your parent's first names, your bank account details - have you kept a copy of a letter you wrote to your bank one day maybe? - the list goes on). In fact if I were you, I'd either get a better network card, not use wireless at all, or switch to a 32-bit kernel so I could use WAP. You probably will not notice any difference in performance. Quote:
Have fun, and thanks for the follow-up, it'll help others. |
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