Re: CFT: Texas Instruments ACX100/111 IEEE 802.11 driver.

From: Alexey Shuvaev <shuvaev_at_physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:44:31 +0100
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 02:34:32PM -0500, Robert Noland wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 20:17 +0100, Alexey Shuvaev wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 02:01:58PM -0500, Robert Noland wrote:
> > > I have a linksys wpc54g v2 card which is a 111 part.  The updated port
> > > does not autoload the firmware, but if I manually load the firmware,
> > > then it attaches.  It doesn't quite work though.
> > > 
> > Nice (I mean that it attaches, at least :)!
> > Developer suggests loading appropriate firmware first.
> > You also need to use specialized acxtool, it is installed by the port.
> > See (at the bottom): http://dev.kewl.org/acx100+111/
> > (and man page if_axc(4) too).
> > Does this pushes the card to work?
> 
> acxtool does seem to set the ssid and channel, though it still doesn't
> seem to associate. Note that I am on -CURRENT.  ifconfig continues to
> complain that channel is undefined regardless of what it is set to.
> 
> wombat% sudo acxtool acx0 -S "2HIP" -M managed -C 5
> Setting ssid to 2HIP
> Setting infrastructure ess/bss capability
> Setting channel to 5  
> wombat% ifconfig                                   
> acx0: flags=8803<UP,BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         ether 00:0f:66:c6:d7:f2
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
>         status: no carrier
> ifconfig: unable to get HT configuration information: Invalid argument
> ifconfig: unknown/undefined channel number 5 flags 0x0
>         ssid 2HIP%
> 
> robert.
> 
And what does 'sudo acxtool acx0' say after you have tried to configure
interface with acxtool with parameters? Anyway, seems it does not
play good with CURRENT :(

Alexey.
Received on Sat Dec 27 2008 - 18:44:33 UTC

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