How to compile acx 100/111 driver in Karmic (FIXED)

[sechole]

I´m glad to announce that there is a patch to compile acx 100/111 driver in kernel 2.6.31
Just follow this instructions:

mkdir acx
cd acx
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/acx...080210.tar.bz2
tar xjvf acx-20080210.tar.bz2
wget http://cc.oulu.fi/~rantalai/acx_karmic.patch
patch -p0 < acx_karmic.patch
cd acx-20080210/
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd`

Load de kernel module
sudo insmod acx.ko

And that's all folks!

Could someone submit the patch to the Ubuntu kernel team?

[dmizer]

I´m glad to announce that there is a patch to compile acx 100/111 driver in kernel 2.6.31
Just follow this instructions:

mkdir acx
cd acx
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/acx...080210.tar.bz2
tar xjvf acx-20080210.tar.bz2
wget http://cc.oulu.fi/~rantalai/acx_karmic.patch
patch -p0 < acx_karmic.patch
cd acx-20080210/
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd`

Load de kernel module
sudo insmod acx.ko

And that's all folks!

Could someone submit the patch to the Ubuntu kernel team?

To get a patch applied, you'll need to open a bug report: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs Once the bug has been reported, then you can submit the patch and the devs will review it and apply it if possible.

[notbad]

does not work for me

tomas@tomas-desktop:~$ sudo modprobe -v acx
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper, it will be ignored in a future release.
FATAL: Module acx not found.

tomas@tomas-desktop:~$ ndiswrapper -l
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper, it will be ignored in a future release.
airplus : driver installed
device (104C:8400) present

tomas@tomas-desktop:~$ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper, it will be ignored in a future release.
FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.

in 9.04 everything worked with ndiswrapper

[dmizer]

does not work for me

tomas@tomas-desktop:~$ sudo modprobe -v acx
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper, it will be ignored in a future release.
FATAL: Module acx not found.

tomas@tomas-desktop:~$ ndiswrapper -l
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper, it will be ignored in a future release.
airplus : driver installed
device (104C:8400) present

tomas@tomas-desktop:~$ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper, it will be ignored in a future release.
FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.

in 9.04 everything worked with ndiswrapper

Everyone I've encountered indicates that ndiswrapper STILL works in Karmic. Try installing the ndisgtk package. After that, you may be able to get a successful response with:

sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

[aapo4]

Notbad, there are two (very) different way to use acx driver. You first tried this:

modprobe acx

This is native driver. And problem is that driver is removed from Karmic (actually kernel 2.6.31, Karmic can be run on older kernel too).
(Therefor error message was: FATAL: Module acx not found.)

You can compile this module by yourself with instructions on first post by sechole.


Second way is use ndiswrapper which uses driver from windows.
apt-get install ndisgtk
modprobe ndiswrapper
find needed windows driver.


dmizer, what is right package to make bug report against? Kernel? Or maybe firmware?
name of bug: "acx kernel module removed"?

[notbad]

none of your suggestions works. ive done everything i could but ndisgtk does not see my pci card: error pops oppening: we do not see any hardware or smthg and Could not find a network configuration tool.

thats it im about to go back to 9.04 or to buy a new wireless adapter

[aapo4]

none of your suggestions works

You only told how one of these fails.
Did you get acx module compiled? What it said when you tried modprobe it?
It is the same driver used before and maybe we can get it back to Ubuntu (or maybe it is dropped by upstream) if people report that it is still working.


Do you have other kernel installed? Is there rows in grub already? You can test these, older kernels (2.6.27 and 2.6.28 ) have acx, but they may miss some other needed features. E.g 2.6.27 has acx, but not support ext4.

[notbad]

tomas@tomas-desktop:~/acx/acx-20080210$ make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd`
make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-14-generic'
CC [M] /home/tomas/acx/acx-20080210/ioctl.o
LD [M] /home/tomas/acx/acx-20080210/acx.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 1 modules
WARNING: modpost: Found 3 section mismatch(es).
To see full details build your kernel with:
'make CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y'
LD [M] /home/tomas/acx/acx-20080210/acx.ko
make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-14-generic'

lspci -v:
02:0a.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 100 22Mbps Wireless Interface
Subsystem: D-Link System Inc Device 3b01
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
I/O ports at c000 [size=32]
Memory at ee010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Memory at ee000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

tomas@tomas-desktop:~$ uname -a
Linux tomas-desktop 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:04:26 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

tomas@tomas-desktop:~$ modprobe acx
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper, it will be ignored in a future release.
FATAL: Module acx not found.

tomas@tomas-desktop:~$ ndiswrapper -l
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper, it will be ignored in a future release.
airplus : driver installed
device (104C:8400) present

tomas@tomas-desktop:~$ dpkg -l|grep linux-image
ii linux-image-2.6.31-14-generic 2.6.31-14.48 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.31 on x86
ii linux-image-2.6.31-14-generic-pae 2.6.31-14.48 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.31 on x86
ii linux-image-generic 2.6.31.14.27 Generic Linux kernel image

so the driver is installed but the modules are not being loaded

[aapo4]

Do not use 'modprobe acx', it is looking module under system directories. If this log text is not snapped you were only just compiled it (not installed)


Give full or relative path to acx.ko you are just produced.

sudo insmod acx.ko

And it should not say FATAL: Module acx not found.

And with this solution you do not need ndiswrapper at all.

First check iwconfig, is there any wlan (maybe not). Then clear log take module and check messages

sudo dmesg -c
sudo insmod acx.ko
dmesg
iwconfig

[notbad]

i gave up trying but thanks for the help