I'm trying to install the ACX-driver in my Slackwarer 10.2 distro so I can use my D-Link wifi pcmcia-card.
I tried to follow the instructions from acx100-sourceforge regarding Slackware. Since I'm using the 2.4.x kernel, I had to download a older version of the driver. Also, I have downloaded the firmware, renamed it according to the instructions on the link above and pasted it into the /lib/firmware directory.
The Make-sequencewent along fine after what I could see, but I recieved an error-message when I tried to install the modules and also when I tried to run the start_netscript. Of course I had already replaced the old scripts with the modyfied scripts.

I have to post a couple of more post to be able to post a link, so I will post the output from the terminal soon since it is to long to be posted here ine the forum.

Here's the link to the terminal log.

As far as I remember, I had the same problem.

Try to run the script out of /usr/local/src/acx with

I think this should work ...

Fluxx.

I tried it and recieved the following output:
Module not found or not readable.
Have you built it? This script expects it to be at ../acx.[k]o, rekative to the script's location. Bailing...
scripts/../acx.ko

I guess that I haven't installed the modules correct.

From what I remember there was some replacement start_net script on their web site, as the paths given in the one provided with the driver were not correct. Look for the link to the fixed one, or try to change it yourself which I didn't manage to do. The updated script worked for me but I don't remember where I found it...

Ouch. Pay attention to what the makefile is telling you. It didn't even finish building properly, so of course it's not going to install. Apparently you changed/added/subtracted part of the core kernel (like the acx driver) and didn't run `make mrproper` to clean up the kernel before building again. This goes double for applying patches to the kernel.

Copy /usr/src/linux/.config to somewhere safe. Delete /usr/src/linux-whatever and untar a fresh copy, make your new symlink. Apply your patch. Light some incence, call dial-a-prayer, kill some goats, etc, and then patch and run `make mrproper` (because the patch is not terrifically wholesome). Copy the .config file back to /usr/src/linux/.config, and then run `make dep && make clean && make blahblahblah` as usual. It should build if it's going to at all.

Note that if you switch to a 2.6.x kernel, that driver will no longer work at all. You'll need one of the ones with the datestring attached from the FTP site at erley or whatever.

Also note that the behaviour of the driver itself changes dramatically with the 2.6.x kernel. With 2.6.x you actually have to `ifconfig wlan0 up` the interface before anything's going to work at all. (It doesn't power up the card, but the tools stay confused enough to think it's working, until you up the interface). I'm using it on my notebook with mixed success. It's really picky about what it will talk to.

its very specific to my system, but you might find some help here. It took me a long time to work out the ACX drivers, so i wrote down how i did it.

http://www.newio.team-ava.org/site/i...N_position=7:7