acx100 module broken

[Matthew Walster]

Binary package hint: linux-source-2.6.17

Using a card based on the acx100 chipset (such as the D-Link b+ series) iwconfig does not show the card. The acx module appears to be loaded, and can be seen using lsmod as attached to usbcore (I'm using the PCI card)

Site acx100.sf.net has a different driver that works for me, however, you MAY be able to fix the present edition in the edgy kernel by putting two pieces of firmware in /lib/firmware

Looking into it, this page (http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/Firmware) says that you should use the firmware on that page, however, you have to rename them ffor your usage - ie/ rename WLANGEN.bin to tiacx100 and RADIO0d.bin to tiacx100r11 etc. PLUS, to make it harder, different models need different firmwares.

Any further issues, please contact me and I'll be glad to give things such as dmesg etc.

Mark Shuttleworth has read through the README, and knows of the situation, drop him an email if you don't like talking to me :)

[Matthew Garrett (mjg59)]

We ship that firmware in the linux-restricted-modules package. What's the output from dmesg when you insert the card?

[Matthew Walster (dotwaffle)]

Sorry - the server has gone down (and seems to have stayed down) when
I was talking to you in IRC about this.

Interestingly, linux-restricted-modules appears to be installed, but
there is nothing in the /lib/firmware/'uname -r'/ directory to do
with acx, I think there may be an issue here... I'm investigating and
will report back when I have answers.

The card is PCI, not PCMCIA or USB.

On 9 Oct 2006, at 16:10, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> We ship that firmware in the linux-restricted-modules package. What's
> the output from dmesg when you insert the card?
>
> --
> acx100 module broken
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/64858

[Chris Wagner (chris-wagner)]

Any resolution on this?

[Gaißenpeter (gaissenpeter)]

Still not working!

# uname -a
Linux munzel 2.6.20-15-386 #2 Sun Apr 15 07:34:00 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[ 2939.423889] acx: Loaded combined PCI/USB driver, firmware_ver=default
[ 2939.423904] acx: compiled to use 32bit I/O access. I/O timing issues might occur, such as non-working firmware upload. Report them
[ 2939.440008] PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:0a.0
[ 2939.440217] PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:01:00.0
[ 2939.440399] acx: found ACX100-based wireless network card at 0000:00:0a.0, irq:11, phymem1:0xFEDFD000, phymem2:0xFEDE0000, mem1:0xe0a22000, mem1_size:4096, mem2:0xe0b80000, mem2_size:65536
[ 2939.440951] acx: eCPU is already running. reset_dev() FAILED
[ 2939.455978] acx_pci: probe of 0000:00:0a.0 failed with error -5
[ 2939.456240] usbcore: registered new interface driver acx_usb

00:0a.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 100 22Mbps Wireless Interface

00:0a.0 0280: 104c:8400
        Subsystem: 16ab:8501
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
        Region 0: I/O ports at 6400 [size=32]
        Region 1: Memory at fedfd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Region 2: Memory at fede0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-)
                Status: D3 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

[Kjell Braden (afflux)]

Hardy Heron 8.04 was recently released. It would be helpful if you could test the new release and verify if this is still an issue - http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . You should be able to test your bug using the LiveCD. Please let us know your results. Thanks.

[Kjell Braden (afflux)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[a-r-k-i-b-o-t-t (arkibott-ray)]

Well, i got 8.04.1 running and i can't use acx100. I think the problem (or a very similar one) is still there.

Applications crash, when they try to use the driver. After the first crash it stops service.