[SOLVED] Problems during acx-wireless installation

chaosgeisterchen · 2006-12-02 14:12:08

Good afternoon,

After having installed ArchLinux, using the current *.iso from http://www.archlinux.org/~tpowa/newisos/ , I am encountering problems during the installation of my D-Link DWL-G520+ wirless card.

I followed the guide in the ArchWiki [1], downloaded the most recent version of the acx-driver (20060521) and used the guide for the acx firmware naming convention [2], using the file provided on that page (FwRad16.bin_1.2.1.34), which I was already using under Kubuntu (it worked just fine there), renaming it to tiacx111c16.

But now I am stuck at the point when it comes to insert the module

modprobe acx

points out that there is no module named acx. I tried out

lsmod | grep acx

but it did not return enything. So the acx module seems not to be there at all.

What could be the problem? The *.iso I was using provided me the 2.6.18.1-Kernel. I had so create /lib/firmware manually and found that more or less a bit strange, as it was not mentioned in the WikiPage. At the moment I am rather clueless about all those things, it should have worked just fine.

Here is the output of all the make-commands (I did not use`uname -r` this time, as there is only one directory in /lib/modules)

## make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-ARCH/build M=`pwd`
make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.18-ARCH'
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST
make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.18-ARCH'
## make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-ARCH/build M=`pwd` modules_install
make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.18-ARCH'
  DEPMOD  2.6.18-ARCH
make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.18-ARCH'

Thank you all for your effort towards solving this problem

~chaosgeisterchen

brain0 · 2006-12-02 21:11:56

You should use the tiacx package from the unstable repository.

chaosgeisterchen · 2006-12-03 12:19:30

Good morning,

Thanks for the hint, I manually installed both the packages needed (tiacx and tiacx-firmware) and now iwconfig detects my wireless interface.

I still have problems, though. I followed the wireless-guide further how to set up the wireless device in the /etc/rc.conf, but somehow it seems as if it failed. I'll post the part ot the rc.conf which tries to properly set up the wireless device for Arch.

MODULES=(acx)

# Interfaces to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each interface then list in INTERFACES
#   - prefix an entry in INTERFACES with a ! to disable it
#   - no hyphens in your interface names - Bash doesn't like it
#
# Note: to use DHCP, set your interface to be "dhcp" (eth0="dhcp")
#
lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
eth0="dhcp"
wlan_wlan0="wlan0 essid linksys key **********"
WLAN_INTERFACES=(wlan0)
INTERFACES=(lo wlan0 !eth0)

Note: I do not ever need my eth0, so it's disabled. Wireless-key is replaced but it's the right one.

Since I followed the guide, I thought it as alright just the way I did it. But if I now try some

ping -c 4 192.168.1.1

, which is my router, I only get the message connect: Network is unreachable. I am quite confused, so I would really much appreciate some further help. The problems lies anywhere in detaill, I assume..

greetings

chaosgeisterchen

chaosgeisterchen · 2006-12-07 23:18:44

It's solved and it was all my fault at last.

I forgot to add the line

wlan0="dhcp"

in the /etc/rc.conf.

It runs well now.

chaosgeisterchen · 2006-12-29 18:36:59

I have to repeat my questions.

I built up a new machine and have put the wireless-NIC into this machine from the old one. But it's not detected at all.

I followed the steps in the Arch Wiki - except for the one thing that I used the packages tiacx and tiacx-firmware for the driver installation. After a depmod -ae command I tried out modprobe acx, but it seems as if the module doesn't want to be loaded at all.

I reinstalled both packages and proceeded the same way right after reinstallation. But it still doesn't work. Any further suggestions? The power-on light is not flashing at all if I take a closer look at the machine, but it seems to be usual if it's not detected.

Thanks in advance,

cg

// EDIT -- 30/12/06 - 18:46

I tried it another way. Removing the package tiacx and building the driver from source [URL=http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless#ACX100.2F111]following the guide in the ArchWiki.[/URL]

The process of making went through without any problems, using the 2.6.19-ARCH kernel (0.8 vodoo iso). But at attempting to insert the module with the command

modprobe acx

, the system is telling me, that the module acx does not exist. Haven't I already built it properly?

The steps I took

## first step
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.19-ARCH/build M=`pwd`
## output
make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.19-ARCH´
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 0 modules
make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.19-ARCH´
## second step
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.19-ARCH/build M=`pwd` modules_install
## output
make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.19-ARCH´
  DEPMOD 2.6.19-ARCH
make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.19-ARCH´
## third step
demod -ae
## forth step
modprobe acx
## output
FATAL: Module acx not found.

Any suggestions?

Thans in advance, once more.

chaosgeisterchen · 2006-12-31 03:25:44

I would like some Forum Adviser to delete the post before this one, it's obsolete.

I used the false package. Well, I had no success getting my NIC to work with the tiacx package installed, so I tried out my luck, first using the steps in the ArchWiki. No success at all.

So I followed the steps in the ACXwiki with rather doubtful success. After unpacking the source I wanted to run make

make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd`
make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.19-ARCH´
  CC [M]  /usr/src/acx-20060521/wlan.o
/usr/src/acx-20060521/wlan.c:40:26: error: linux/config.h: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [/usr/src/acx-20060521/wlan.o] Error 1
make: *** [_module_/usr/src/acx-20060521] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.19-ARCH´

And I just can't figure out, where to get the missing file from. Could it be that the ACX driver is incompatible with the 2.6.19-Kernel? Or what are your suggestions?

Regards

cg

freigeist · 2007-01-01 20:27:12

Try creating an empty config.h in /usr/src/<your_kernel>/include/linux/. It should work.

chaosgeisterchen · 2007-01-01 22:08:12

It still does not work, but thanks for the answer.

make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd`
make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.19-ARCH´
 CC [M]  /usr/src/acx-20060521/pci.o
/usr/src/acx-20060521/pci.c: In function 'acxpci_e_probe':
/usr/src/acx-20060521/pci.c:1653: error: 'UTS_RELEASE' undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/src/acx-20060521/pci.c:1653: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/usr/src/acx-20060521/pci.c:1653: error: for each fuction it appears in.)
/usr/src/acx-20060521/pci.c: In function 'acxpci_e_open':
/usr/src/acx-20060521/pci.c:2079: warning: passing argument 2 of 'request_irq' from incompatible pointer type
make[1]: *** [/usr/src/acx-20060521/pci.o] Error 1
make: *** [_module_/usr/src/acx-20060521] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.19-ARCH´

Moo-Crumpus · 2007-01-02 00:31:47

Is something wrong with the acx package in unstable? I use it and it does a good job...

chaosgeisterchen · 2007-01-02 02:15:21

I'm dumb. I was just stuck to use an older package than required - and it now works rather fine.

The interface now comes up as expected but I have some weird problem with the configuration. I configure it as follows, extracts are from the /etc/rc.conf.

wlan0="dhcp"
wlan_wlan0="wlan0 essid linksys key ********"
WLAN_INTERFACES=(wlan0)
INTERFACES=(lo wlan0 !eth0)

Should be just fine, but starting the network fails somehow. Upon calling iwconfig wlan0, it tells me somehow that the chosen essid is called linksy and not linksys as initially configured. So it's crystal clear that no connection to a network can be established. But - how come that it's configured the wrong way round? How can it be that the essid-name is cut off?

Regards

cg

elliott · 2007-01-02 03:01:33

chaosgeisterchen wrote:

Should be just fine, but starting the network fails somehow. Upon calling iwconfig wlan0, it tells me somehow that the chosen essid is called linksy and not linksys as initially configured. So it's crystal clear that no connection to a network can be established. But - how come that it's configured the wrong way round? How can it be that the essid-name is cut off?

For some reason the last update to the driver makes it cut off the last character in the essid, just put an extra character at the end of your normal essid and it should work fine.

chaosgeisterchen · 2007-01-02 04:11:49

Works just fine - but it is hopefully fixed soon.

hurrrtin · 2007-01-05 19:25:39

Had the same problem. Added one extra letter to essid name and it worked fine! Thank you much!

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[SOLVED] Problems during acx-wireless installation

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