I recently installed openSuse 11 on a Dell 8250 machine that also has Windows XP installed (dual boot) My D-Link DWL 520+ works fine under XP.
Under Yast/Network Settings I see my card with the message
“ACX 100 22Mbps Wireless Interface (Not connected)
BusID : 0000:02:09.0
Unable to configure the network card because the kernel device (eth0, wlan0) is not present. This is mostly caused by missing firmware (for wlan devices). See dmesg output for details.”
I found some stuff on google and downloaded firmware
acx-firmware-20060207.tar.bz2
I untar’d it in /lib/firmware and it created an fs directory with many subfolders in it:
ls fs -al
dr-xr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Feb 6 2006 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 23 20:12 …
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 7 2006 acx100_1.0.7-USB
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 7 2006 acx100_1.0.9-USB
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 6 2006 acx100_1.10.7.K
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 27 2005 acx100_1.10.7.i
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 13 2005 acx100_1.7.0
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 6 2006 acx100_1.9.10.0_A4
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 12 2005 acx100_1.9.8.b
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 12 2005 acx111_0.1.0.11
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 12 2005 acx111_0.4.11.4
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 12 2005 acx111_0.4.11.9
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 12 2005 acx111_1.2.0.30
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 6 2005 acx111_1.2.1.34
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 12 2005 acx111_2.3.1.31
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 7 2006 acx111_2.4.0.70-USB
My questions include:
Do I already have a driver installed??? In Yast/Hardware Information I see the device and it seems to have a driver (from when I installed openSuse 11 2 weeks ago). The driver says “.modprobe acx”.
How do I get the firmware installed??? I have no idea.
OK, based on what I said in the first page of this thread, the “Status” message off of my “Computer” button in the lower left says that my wireless network is working, and that I’m connected to my correct ssid name. So I guess putting the modules I mentioned into /lib/firmware by itself did something. This was one of my questions in the first post (how to install firmware).
I entered my WEP settings. I named my wireless network (essid or ssid). If I choose a false name for my network ID (essid) it does not work (the status is not connected).
YET, I cannot browse the web, I am not really connected unless I plug in a hard ethernet wire to my computer.
odindba wrote:
> OK, based on what I said in the first page of this thread, the “Status”
> message off of my “Computer” button in the lower left says that my
> wireless network is working, and that I’m connected to my correct ssid
> name. So I guess putting the modules I mentioned into /lib/firmware by
> itself did something. This was one of my questions in the first post
> (how to install firmware).
>
> I entered my WEP settings. I named my wireless network (essid or ssid).
> If I choose a false name for my network ID (essid) it does not work (the
> status is not connected).
>
> YET, I cannot browse the web, I am not really connected unless I plug
> in a hard ethernet wire to my computer.
It looks as if you have a connection. Please post the output from the following
commands when using the proper WEP key:
Thanks Much! I entered the first 3 of your 4 commands (what is “route -n”???) see results below I needed 2 posts because the forum poster thought I had images in this post (hex data???):
/usr/sbin/iwconfig
/sbin/ifconfig
sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan
route -n
/usr/sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11b+ ESSID:“odindba” Nickname:“linux-rvf8”
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.452 GHz Access Point: 00:22:6B:79:A3:61
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Tx-Power=18 dBm Sensitivity=187/255
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=100/100 Signal level=100/100 Noise level=0/100
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
odindba wrote:
> Thanks Much! I entered the first 3 of your 4 commands (what is “route
> -n”???) see results below I needed 2 posts because the forum poster
> thought I had images in this post (hex data???):
> /usr/sbin/iwconfig
> /sbin/ifconfig
> sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan
> route -n
>
> wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:C5:C9:20
> inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255
> Mask:255.255.255.0
> inet6 addr: fe80::240:5ff:fec5:c920/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:328 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:53 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:95715 (93.4 Kb) TX bytes:8166 (7.9 Kb)
> Interrupt:18 Base address:0xec40
You do have a connection via wireless. One thing - if you don’t need IPV6 then
you should turn it off using YaST => Network Devices => Network Settings =>
Global Options.
The route command shows the routing tables. If they are wrong, you won’t get to
the Internet.
I missed something the first time. You have IP addresses for both eth0 and
wlan0. On my computer, that has confused networking. You should issue a ‘sudo
ifdown eth0’ command before trying to use the wireless. Alternatively, you could
unplug the ethernet cable.
odindba wrote:
> Larry, I have been unplugging the ethernet cable before rebooting and
> testing new settings. Turning off IVP6 did not fix the problem.
Are you manually setting an IP for eth0?
I still have not seen the output of ‘/sbin/route -n’.
I have openSuse 11 32 bit on Dell 8250 with dual boot to XP (where my wireless card works fine).
I downloaded acx-firmware-20060207.tar.bz2
in /lib/firmware, I xvf’d it to create an fw directory of many firmware sets.
I copied tiacx100, tiacx100r0D, and tiacx100r11 to /lib/firmware from the fw/acx100_1.10.7.K directory of the firmware downloaded above.
I configured card in Yast network services, and the message off of the “computer” button in gnome’s lower left said "wireless network - connected to “mynetworkname” was working. I was using wep encription.
I could get to 192.168.1.1 (my Linksys WRT54GL wireless router’s admin stuff) through Firefox, but cannot see any web sites at all , even hard coded ip addresses.
If I changed network name in Yast config to a network name of “doesnotexist” or entered wrong WEP keys, no network was found (off of “computer” button), and I could not even get to my wireless router.
Someone out there must have an idea what the above facts mean. openSuse 11 found is using it’s acx driver. Any ideas? I have hwinfo data below: Thanks.