----- Original Message ----- From: "Arindam Dey" <adey@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 7:37 PM Subject: Re: Add wireless adapter > People first off my apologies for the length of this mail but had to go > for the detailed version to give a better idea as to how to go about it. > > <Quoting from the README in the acx100 driver> > > Next, a firmware is needed. We cannot ship this with our driver, so you > will have to get it elsewhere. There are two option: you have a windows > driver installed or have a zip file with all the necesary windows files > in it (for example D-Link installer), or you have a binary linux driver. > The firmware used by windows driver consists of several files normally > named WLANGEN.BIN, RADIO0d.BIN and RADIO11.BIN which can be found in > windows/system32, or in the install archive. Place these files in the > firmware directory, and you are ready to roll. > Another option is a binary Linux driver. Several drivers are available > on the internet, and they all seem to work. But the firmware is embedded > in the binary driver, and so needs to be extracted. Place the driver in > the firmware directory and make sure it is called acx100_pci.o. Then > run 'make extract_firmware', and you are set. Make sure that no radio > modules (RADIO*.BIN) files are placed in the firmware directory when > using a linux firmware, otherwise the driver will attempt to load and > initialise the radio module for your card again, with unpredictable > results. > The linux driver already has the radio module embedded in the firmware. > The firmware version this Linux driver contains is 1.5.0, as printed > during our driver initialisation. > > The DWL-650+ and 520+ and Planet cards use a Maxim radio instead of the > usual RFMD, so these cards will not work with the linux driver firmware > and so the windows firmware must be used. > > </Quoting from the README in the acx100 driver> > > >From the above it is very clear what needs to be done. Specifically read > the last paragraph... Based on this I assumed that I need to go for the > new way of doing things since my card was a pretty recent version at > that time which is about 2 months back when I configured it. > > It is nothing to be scared off. All you gotta do is find a Windows PC > attach the card there temporarily and install the driver then copy the > files mentioned over to the linux PC and put it in a directory called > "firmware" or anything you want. If you do not have a Windows PC you can > try extracting the required files from the driver CD but not too sure > how to do this.Then all you gotta do is pass the firmware dir to the > module while inserting it like so > > # insmod ../src/acx100_pci.o firmware_dir=../firmware > > Above line has been copied from the "start_net" script provided along > with the driver. > > If the parameter name has changed you can check what all parameters the > module will accept using the "modinfo" command. > > I took the driver from the CVS. Haven't checked it out lately maybe now > the stable version itself has this method and is working fine. Did not > mess around with it after that since it is working fine. > > -- > Arindam Dey Ardindam: Thank you very much. I really appreciate the trouble you've gone to, in amplifying the instructions for me. I will be ready to give this a try late in the week. Regards, Glenn -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
