Airlink is a pain. I believe that Airlink is Fry's OEM brand. There does not seem to be much in the way of customer support. I was checking into their products earlier this year and decided against them. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lan Barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: KPLUG <[email protected]> Subject: Wifi PCI card woes Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 11:56:02 -0800
> > OK, this is a continuation of my installfest challenge. I want to get my > MythTV box on the home wifi. I bought an Airlink 101 PCI card and it was > no soap. Here is where I am. There was a lot of blood shed to get here, > not all of it mine (thanks to the IF team yesterday, especially Jim > Sack). > > The chip in the Airlink is the TI ACX100/111, a POS according to most > google hits[0]. It does _not_ use the atheros driver as my Airlink > PCcard does -- bummer! > > I found one guy doing a driver in Germany. He hates TI. So do I now. > > http://acx100.sourceforge.net/info_extern.html > > I upgraded to the 2.6.13 kernel and kernel dev as recommended (not .14) > and compiled the driver successfully. I also extracted the embedded > portion from TI's binaries as instructed. TI won't give their protocol, > so this is necessary (you can hate them, too). > > I've configured the driver and it tries loading but fails. Actually, > ifconfig shows the device with all the correct parameters, but it keeps > trying to contact the hub and failing. It's the nature of the driver > (because of hateful TI) that it can do ad-hoc and Auto but not managed, > and I'm wondering if its cycling failure is just an inability to > connect. I'm pretty naive about all this. > > The cycling message says that it scans 4 times and then fails: > > "no matching station found in range yet" > > There is a load of debugging info that I don't capture -- can I get that > with redirection or tee or something? I have to reboot to make it stop. > > I'm making other arrangements to get a tulip-based card, but I hate to > give up too easily. I imagine this driver will get better soon enough > because the damned chip is everywhere, but what I gonna do tonight? > > Anybody ...? > > [0] the real issue is apparently TI's utter indifference to providing > help to open source. Screw 'em and boycott! > > -- > Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list Randall Shimizu Cabrillo Computer Solutions http://is-perspectives.blogspot.com/ 619-223-6947 -- ___________________________________________________ Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.mail.com/ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
