Guest kevingpo Posted November 27, 2004 Report Share Posted November 27, 2004 I bought this "802.11g Wireless PCI Card" from: https://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?NOV-54GPCI The only downside is that I totally forgot about Linux support. I have tried hard trying to figure out the chipset this card uses but to no avail. There's no indication on the physical card itself or the box packaging or the website as to what chipset it uses. The only clues I got are from Windows Device Manager properties of the card: Driver Provider: Texas Instruments C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\FwRad16.bin C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\FwRad17.bin C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\TNET1130.sys Someone please help me get this Wireless PCI card working under linux. I am currently using Mandrake Community 10.1. I see there's this driver called acx100_pci (and it says in brackets for TI PCI cards (TI could mean Texas Instruments?)). But when I chose this driver and auto-probe I don't get any results/luck. Please help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I_NEED_HELP Posted November 27, 2004 Report Share Posted November 27, 2004 To get this working in lniux your best bet is ndiswrapper which lets you use windows drivers in linux for wirless cards because wireless doesnt have great support in linux yet. Search on the forum for more help with ndiswrapper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kevingpo Posted November 27, 2004 Report Share Posted November 27, 2004 My friend Ricky directed me to the following two URLs below: http://www.joot.com/dave/writings/articles...nux-howto.shtml http://acx100.sourceforge.net/ They sound complicated. But think this should work. (Note for Bruce). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted November 28, 2004 Report Share Posted November 28, 2004 Yes, those two firmware file names indicate an acx100 card. The bad news is these are very poor cards for Linux...the acx100 driver works for some setups and some cards but not all. Read all the documentation and experiment, but I had one of these cards for a week and never did get it working (ultimately I got the module loaded and firmware uploaded to the card and it would read the signal from my AP, but could somehow never connect to it). Using ndiswrapper, with any Windows driver I could find for the card, locked the kernel solid. Fun stuff. I replaced the card, in the end. My new one works OK with ndiswrapper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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