Wireless, ACX 100 driver installation

[QliMZ]

Hi,

I'm 15 and i never used a linx system before, so this is my first time using ubuntu, i installed it, with windows xp, so i have a dual boot. Everything went fine but i can't connect to my wireless connection, so i browsed around on these forums and did iwconfig, and it said my wireless connection isn't supported, or something like that. So I downloaded and extracted the driver on ubuntu, now is my question how can i install this driver easily, cause i am not experienced with this.

Thanks alot !

[chili555]

Are you sure the built-in module, acx won't work? Open a terminal and do:

sudo modprobe acx
iwconfig

Does your wireless card show up? If not, please post:

dmesg | grep acx
sudo lshw -C network

Thanks.

[QliMZ]

sudo modprobe acx

l0 no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.

dmesg | grep acx

acx: Loaded combined PCI/usb driver, firmware_ver=default
acx: compiled to use 32bit I/O acces
acx: found ACX100-based wireless network card at 0000:00:0a.0
acx: loading firmware for acx100 chipset with radio ID 0D
acx: FIRMWARE IMAGE 'ACX/DEFAULT/TIACX100C0D' WAS NOT PROVIDED. CHECK YOUR HOTPLUG SCRIPTS.

( I shortened it, cause i'm on a laptop typing this, and i type the possible error for my problem in caps, i think that is causing this.)

sudo lshw -C network

network:0
description: Ethernet interface
product: SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems
physical id: 4
logical name: eth0
version: 91
...

network:1
description: Wireless interface
product: ACX 100 22Mbps Wireless Interface
vendor: Texas Instruments
physical id: a
version: 00
width: 32 bits
configuration: boardcast=yes driver=acx_pci latency=64 module=acx multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 902.11b

I left some things out, let me know if i need to do something else, hope this will be fixed soon, ...
Thx

[chili555]

Do you actually have the firmware, which is included in linux-restricted-modules? Check to see if:

locate acx | grep firmware

produces many lines like:

/lib/firmware/2.6.24-19-generic/acx/default/tiacx100usb
/lib/firmware/2.6.24-19-generic/acx/default/tiacx111c16
/lib/firmware/2.6.24-19-generic/acx/default/tiacx111c17
/lib/firmware/2.6.24-19-generic/acx/default/tiacx111c19

If not, please:

sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-generic

A well known issue is that, all though dmesg complains it can't load the firmware, it actually loads a few lines later! Check here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3375718

Were there any acx entries further along in dmesg beyond what you posted?

[QliMZ]

This is the full log:

alexander@qlimzdesktop:~$ sudo modprobe acx
alexander@qlimzdesktop:~$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11b+  ESSID:""  Nickname:"acx v0.3.36"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Bit Rate:1 Mb/s   Tx-Power=18 dBm   Sensitivity=176/255  
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=15/100  Signal level=26/100  Noise level=16/100
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:44  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

alexander@qlimzdesktop:~$ dmesg | grep acx
[   33.273985] acx: Loaded combined PCI/USB driver, firmware_ver=default
[   33.273993] acx: compiled to use 32bit I/O access. I/O timing issues might occur, such as non-working firmware upload. Report them
[   33.274139] acx: found ACX100-based wireless network card at 0000:00:0a.0, irq:20, phymem1:0xCFFFD000, phymem2:0xCFFE0000, mem1:0xe095c000, mem1_size:4096, mem2:0xe0a20000, mem2_size:65536
[   33.275148] acx: loading firmware for acx100 chipset with radio ID 0D
[   37.531612] acx: firmware image 'acx/default/tiacx100c0D' was not provided. Check your hotplug scripts
[   38.285912] acx: loading radio image for radio 0D
[   38.801042] acx: === chipset TNETW1100B, radio type 0x0D (Maxim), form factor 0x01 ((mini-)PCI / CardBus), EEPROM version 0x05: uploaded firmware 'Rev 1.9.8.b' ===
[   38.801432] acx v0.3.36: net device wlan0, driver compiled against wireless extensions 22 and Linux 2.6.24-19-generic
[   38.801494] usbcore: registered new interface driver acx_usb
alexander@qlimzdesktop:~$ sudo lshw -C network
  *-network:0             
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet
       vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
       physical id: 4
       bus info: pci@0000:00:04.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 91
       serial: 00:0a:e6:ad:1c:32
       size: 10MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=sis900 driverversion=v1.08.10 Apr. 2 2006 duplex=half latency=64 link=no maxlatency=11 mingnt=52 module=sis900 multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s
  *-network:1
       description: Wireless interface
       product: ACX 100 22Mbps Wireless Interface
       vendor: Texas Instruments
       physical id: a
       bus info: pci@0000:00:0a.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 00
       serial: 00:0d:88:8b:2a:54
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=acx_pci latency=64 module=acx multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11b+
alexander@qlimzdesktop:~$

[chili555]

So, your interface is working! Can you now click the little Network Manager icon and connect?

[QliMZ]

Well the problem is, my wireless connection is in the list, so i click it and then i have to enter my password. My connection on windows is installed as a WeP, so i entered my password as a wep to, but that doesn't work, and when i try entering it as a leap the connection symbol dissapears and ubuntu starts freezing, like firefox doesn't work and other programs to, like shutdown comes really late or just freezes.

[chili555]

I believe there is a drop-down for '40-128 bit hexadecimal.' Please try your WEP key there. I assume it's a 10- or 26-character key?

[QliMZ]

When i connect with my wep key, the network icon just dissapears, and when i click firefox then it freezes everytime.

[QliMZ]

After that, the icon disappears, and firefox is really slow and then freezes, jsut like pidgin and some other programs.