No joy with GNet NP0650 WiFi card (ACX100)

[kortsen]

I just found a Ubuntu bug report that seems to describe my problem.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...20/+bug/121244

So, if this is a known and documented bug does that mean I'm hozed?

[kortsen]

Re: No joy with GNet NP0650 WiFi card (ACX100)

Assuming that there IS hope, here are the details:

On booting up I get an error message that it is unable to load /lib/firmware/acx/default/tiacx100c11. Well no duh! If you didn't read the bug report above, here is the title "121244 Feisty asks for non existing firmware tiacx100c11."

Once running, the Network Manager seems to recognize my Texas Instrument ACX100 Wireless Card but when I try to connect to a network a window pops up with a gas gauge that stalls at 28% "configuring devices."

On a trip to the ACX100 project at Sourceforge I found that there is a naming convention for the binary files. There is a fix posted for some D-Link cards that involves copying the BIN files from teh Windows CD to the /default folder and renaming or symlinking them. I have the Windows disk for my GNet card so I am looking for help matching file names to what Kubuntu is looking for.

Binaries for Windows

05/11/2002 12:04a 33,888 TIACXMX.BIN
08/04/2002 03:13a 2 TIACXLN.CAT
30/12/2002 06:53a 9,161 TIACXLN.INF
20/12/2002 03:01a 141,952 TIACXLN.sys
05/11/2002 12:04a 32,948 TIACXGEN.BIN
17/09/2002 05:43a 1,100 TIACXRFM.BIN
05/11/2002 12:04a 1,076 TIACXRMX.BIN
05/11/2002 12:04a 33,900 TIACXSN.BIN

I also have an output of lspci -vv

04:00.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 100 22Mbps Wireless Interface
Subsystem: Texas Instruments Unknown device 8401
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 64
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: I/O ports at d800 [size=32]
Region 1: Memory at 2c010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Region 2: Memory at 2c000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

and an output of iwconfig

wlan0 IEEE 802.11b+ ESSID:"" Nickname:"acx v0.3.36"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.452 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:2 Mb/s Tx-Power=18 dBm Sensitivity=187/255
Retry min limit:7 RTS thrff
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality=91/100 Signal level=88/100 Noise level=0/100
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:7 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

[opie]

Re: No joy with GNet NP0650 WiFi card (ACX100)

I'm not convinced the firmware error you are seeing is the source of your problems. There are other files that should be loaded if that file isn't found. Your card seems to be functioning.

Lets gather some info first:

In a terminal window (kmenu -> System -> konsole) paste the following (paste with shift- insert, don't type them so we are sure there were no errors typing them in) and paste the results here.

dmesg | grep acx

and

ls /lib/firmware/`uname -r`/acx/default | grep acx

Use adept to get wlassistant and use that instead of knetworkmanager, which seems to have a lot of problems.

Paste the results of the commands and try wlassistant and let us know the results

[kortsen]

Re: No joy with GNet NP0650 WiFi card (ACX100)

Here's the info

dmesg | grep acx

root@toshiba:/home/lars# dmesg | grep acx
[ 30.548000] acx: Loaded combined PCI/USB driver, firmware_ver=default
[ 30.548000] acx: compiled to use 32bit I/O access. I/O timing issues might occur, such as non-working firmware upload. Report them
[ 31.268000] acx: found ACX100-based wireless network card at 0000:04:00.0, irq:11, phymem1:0x2C010000, phymem2:0x2C000000, mem1:0xd0aa8000, mem1_size:4096, mem2:0xd0b60000, mem2_size:65536
[ 31.268000] acx: loading firmware for acx100 chipset with radio ID 11
[ 31.432000] acx: firmware image 'acx/default/tiacx100c11' was not provided. Check your hotplug scripts
[ 31.828000] acx: loading radio image for radio 11
[ 32.508000] acx: === chipset TNETW1100A, radio type 0x11 (RFMD), form factor 0x00 (unspecified), EEPROM version 0x04: uploaded firmware 'Rev 1.9.8.b' ===
[ 32.508000] acx v0.3.36: net device wlan0, driver compiled against wireless extensions 21 and Linux 2.6.20-15-generic
[ 32.508000] usbcore: registered new interface driver acx_usb

and

ls /lib/firmware/`uname -r`/acx/default | grep acx

root@toshiba:/home/lars# ls /lib/firmware/`uname -r`/acx/default | grep acx
tiacx100
tiacx100r0D
tiacx100r11
tiacx100r15
tiacx100usb
tiacx111c16
tiacx111c17
tiacx111c19

Use adept to get wlassistant and use that instead of knetworkmanager, which seems to have a lot of problems.

How do I do that without a network connection? I'm dual booting and using a thumb drive to share files. Can I do it from a tarball?

[kortsen]

Re: No joy with GNet NP0650 WiFi card (ACX100)

SUCCESS!!!

How do I do that without a network connection? I'm dual booting and using a thumb drive to share files. Can I do it from a tarball?

I downloaded the DEB for wlassistant. Thank goodness there were no dependency issues. Once it installed I had no problems at all connecting to the WLAN and using ADEPT to install FIREFOX. Which is how I am posting this.

Thank you for your help.