Greg2

I have a smilar problem in Windows. Sometimes when I boot wireless starts and sometimes it doesn't and I have to use the repair option and it always works and I get wireless. I've heard people say that wireless in Windows is unpredictable. I guess my main concern is that it's not a hardware problem because I only have two weeks left on my warranty.

I agree with tyme. It is 'very' important to contact them and let them know before the warranty is up.

I use the same wireless chip as you, and have had no problems using Linux or Windows... contact the manufacturer!

when I go to hardware and click on my wireless card it shows modules bcm43xx.

Check in the /etc/modprobe.preload.d directory and remove any bcm43xx... if it's there? Try again, and if that doesn't work:

I've never tried this (so I'm not responsible for anything that goes wrong), but you could rename it, so the system can't find it?

cd /lib/modules/2.6.17-5mdv/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx
mv bcm43xx.ko.gz no-bcm43xx.ko.gz

you may need to use depmod to update the 'system.map' for this to work properly... I'm not sure? Maybe someone else here knows?

Good luck!

This didn't work. It's still using bcm43xx. Also I copies the windows driver and I put the .sys and .inf. I checked ndiswrapper and it shows that my driver.inf is installed and hardware found but .sys is an invalid driver.

Well, it should have worked. :P

Anyway, make sure you have removed or commented out any bcm43xx in /etc/modprobe.preload and any 'alias wlan0 bcm43xx' in /etc/modprobe.conf

Use the .inf file with ndiswrapper.

reboot and see what happens. :)

I tried to reconfigure it using ndiswrapper and the windows drive but when I check hardware it shows it's still using the native driver.

Sorry the native module is not working out for you. Using your favorite editor open /etc/modprobe.conf and add the line:

blacklist bcm43xx

this will prevent the bcm43xx module from loading.

Now I had to reboot and I lost my connection again. I went through all of the above mentioned steps and still no wireless.

Is this the first time you have booted since it was working with the native module?

Have you tried going to MCC > Hardware > Look at and configure hardware, and setting it up there?

Then go to Network and Internet > Wireless connection, and set that up.

@Jimtim, I've just dissembled a RealPlayer-10.0.8.805-3.SoS.2007.0.i586.rpm and it does indeed place the realplay script in /usr/lib/RealPlayer10GOLD/realplay with it linked to /usr/bin/realplay, so /usr/bin/realplay will (should) work.

In about:config the value entered for network.protocol-handler.app.rtsp it should read realplay

You can correct this by right clicking on the entry and select Modify and overwrite with realplay. That will correct that for you.

Actually, it should be the path: /usr/bin/realplay

I've explained this before in this thread:

I have installed Realplayer on my systems with the Realplayer10Gold.bin, and it places the script in /usr/local/bin/realplay, I'm sorry for that bit of confusion.

/usr/local/bin/realplay

to

/usr/bin/realplay

When I had Mandriva on my machine, I also noticed it didn't change the time automatically, even though NTP was enabled and configured correctly!

 

So you're not the only one. However, same machine, and Debian, works fine.

I had just the opposite, Mandriva and Xubuntu changed correctly, but Debian Etch did not. :huh:

Congrats, I'm glad you have it working! :)

However, would you please give me the model of your wireless device? I need this to try to replicate the problem and file a bug report, and to notify the Kernel devs... so that we (Linux users) will not always be dependent on windows drivers. ;)

Thanks! I have a new toy to play with. :D

FATAL: Module acx not found.

Ok, that's my fault, sorry. I have too many different distros here.

I see that Mandriva 2007.0 has acx-common, acx-pci, and acx-usb. What do you have a pci wireless card? So if you have a pci card, as root try:

modprobe acx-pci

You should however be able to go to MCC > Hardware > Look at and configure hareware, and set it up there. Then go to Network and Internet > Wireless connection, and set up that.

Oh, and you don't have to keep doing 'everything' over. :)

OK I cannot find the plugins file.

Just make one Jim. In your /home/james/.mozilla directory

right-click > create new > folder, and name it plugins

The only person I'm worried about confusing is Jim as we have come a long way to get to this point

I agree, that's the 'only' reason I pointed it out. I wasn't trying to offend anyone. :)

There's a link at the top of this page, or you can use this: https://mandrivausers.org/easyurpmi/index.php

I think you'll be able to figure it out when you get there. :)

As SilverSurfer60 has noted: Copy or link nphelix.so to your Mozilla plugins directory and nphelix.xpt to your Mozilla components directory.

Not quite Jim, because you won't find a Mozilla components in your .mozilla directory. Either copy or link both the files into ~/.mozilla/plugins directory.

Please read:

http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#RealPlayer

[greg@halfway ~]$ cd /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.1/components
[greg@halfway components]$ ls |grep nphelix
nphelix.xpt*

The nphelix.xpt provides scripting support for the Realplayer, and according to mozdev.org should be in the components directory. I'm not trying to confuse anyone or start an argument, but... mine works. :)

Can someone please point me to a good resource or provide a relevant example, step by step, from A to Z how to download a driver or program from the web and stick it into the file where it belongs so I can install it.

OK, open your Konsole and do:

mkdir temp

then

cd temp

then

wget -r -np http://195.66.192.167/linux/acx_patches/fw/acx111_1.2.1.34/

then

cd 195.66.192.167/linux/acx_patches/fw/acx111_1.2.1.34/

then

su

enter your password, then

cp tiacx111 tiacx111c16 tiacx111c17 tiacx111r16 tiacx111r17 /lib/firmware/

then

modprobe acx

open your mcc and set up your wireless connection. :)

@arctic, Sorry to here about your lappy, I hope you've 'only' damaged the hd.

@Jimtim, I've just dissembled a RealPlayer-10.0.8.805-3.SoS.2007.0.i586.rpm and it does indeed place the realplay script in /usr/lib/RealPlayer10GOLD/realplay with it linked to /usr/bin/realplay, so /usr/bin/realplay will (should) work.

I have installed Realplayer on my systems with the Realplayer10Gold.bin, and it places the script in /usr/local/bin/realplay, I'm sorry for that bit of confusion.

As SilverSurfer60 has noted: Copy or link nphelix.so to your Mozilla plugins directory and nphelix.xpt to your Mozilla components directory.

I went there and after following their steps I get this error instead:

/usr/bin/beryl-settings:2: RuntimeWarning: Python C API version mismatch for module berylsettings: This Python has API version 1013, module berylsettings has version 1012.

I'm guessing here that you don't have python2.5 installed? If not, and you have changed the first line of /usr/bin/beryl-settings from:

#!/usr/bin/env python

to

#!/usr/bin/env python2.5

change it to:

#!/usr/bin/env python2.4

and try again.

Alternatively, you could leave it as:

#!/usr/bin/env python

and try to open it with:

python2.4 /usr/bin/beryl-settings

I say it only nearly works because when I click on a video link on the BBC website, mplayer is automatically started - but it doesn't read anything. I have no way of getting it to use Realplayer, apart from copying the URL of the clip I want to watch in open location in the file tab in Realplayer.

The solution:

https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?s=&...st&p=304060

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****

card 0: V8235 [VIA 8235], device 0: VIA 8235 [VIA 8235]

As root try

modprobe snd-via82xx

then go to mcc > hardware > look at and config hardware, and set up you card.

I have Mandriva 2007 (free) installed all was going well but now have lost all sound

We need some more info Ernie. Please post the output of:

lspci -v |grep Sound

and

aplay --list-devices

I've just booted up my old p2 test box:

greg@atlantis:~$ uname -a
Linux atlantis 2.6.17-10-generic #2 SMP Fri Oct 13 18:45:35 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
greg@atlantis:~$ lspci |grep Network
00:0e.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface

and I'm posting this with the Native acx module using a 256-bit key.

FYI, I'm also using the Native module for my laptop that has a Broadcom 4318 using the same key. I'm not having any problems with either of these, in fact, they work perfectly.

Since the OP wanted to use the Native acx module... lets let him(or her) try it, and decide for themselves? :)

That is where I actually downloaded the file from-- to my desktop but there I am stuck

OK, in a terminal as root you must cd to the directory

cd Desktop

where you have d/l the firmware files (all of them). Then do

cp tiacx111 tiacx111c16 tiacx111c17 tiacx111r16 tiacx111r17 /lib/firmware/

then do

modprobe acx

open your mcc and set up your wireless connection.

my wireless connection says that I need firmware for the following device. It says:

 

Some packages (acx100-firmware) are required but aren't available.Info:

due to missing /lib/firmware/tiacx1*

 

The required files can also be installed from this URL:

http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/Firmware It even gave me a website to get it but

 

My wireless device is: Vendor: Texas Instruments, Description: WLAN Device TNETW1130(ACX111)

You need to d/l the firmware (without any .htm extensions) from:

http://195.66.192.167/linux/acx_patches/fw/acx111_1.2.1.34/

and as root, copy them all to /lib/firmware

then as root do:

modprobe acx

open your mcc and set up your wireless connection.

That looks like you need to update your python libs?

Did you use 'all' of the SoS repos when you installed Beryl? If you didn't you missed some updates for it.

If you did and you have this problem, there's a closed bug here with a fix for you to use:

http://bugs.beryl-project.org/ticket/815

I know it's a Ubuntu bug, but the fix should work for you.