Current ACX driver will not let USR5410 card function properly.

[Guus]

Binary package hint: linux-source-2.6.20

Using Feisty (dist-upgraded January 8th, 2007), my US Robotics USR5410 card wouldn't work properly (while it worked fine in Ubuntu 6.10).

The card uses the ACX driver. Following instructions on http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/Distribution_list/Ubuntu (look for the addition made January 4th, 2007) I was able to connect to my network again.

The most eye-catching symptoms where that one of the LEDs on the card was active and that there's a wlan0 reported by iwconfig, but wlan0 is labelled 'no wireless extensions' by iwconfig.

I ended up downloading the driver tarball again, recompiling it and using that. There was no need to download another firmware version - I used the tiacx111c16 firmware that is provided in the 'default' folder in /lib/firmware/`uname -r`/acx/default (symlink to ../1.2.1.34 directory).

Note that I'm not familiar with Linux kernel/driver/firmware development at all. I'm hoping that these steps give a more knowledgeable person an indication that enables him/her to fix the problem constructively.

Basically, what I did was this:

# cd /usr/src/
# wget http://lisas.de/~andi/acx100/acx-20070101.tar.bz2
# tar xjvf acx-20070101.tar.bz2
# cd acx-20070101
# make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd`
# lsmod | grep acx
# modprobe -r acx
# cp /lib/firmware/`uname -r`/acx/default/tiacx111c16 /lib/firmware/
# insmod ./acx.ko

[Louai Al-Khanji (slougi)]

I have the same problem on a D-Link DWL-650+. The newer driver did NOT work for me, and the older snapshots do not compile anymore due to driver API changes.

[Cristian Aravena Romero (caravena)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. Unfortunately we can't fix it, because your description didn't include enough information.

Please include the following additional information, if you have not already done so (please pay attention to lspci's additional options), as required by the Ubuntu Kernel Team:
1. Please include the output of the command "uname -a" in your next response. It should be one, long line of text which includes the exact kernel version you're running, as well as the CPU architecture.
2. Please run the command "dmesg > dmesg.log" and attach the resulting file "dmesg.log" to this bug report.
3. Please run the command "lspci -vvnn > lspci-vvnn.log" and attach the resulting file "lspci-vvnn.log" to this bug report.

For your reference, the full description of procedures for kernel-related bug reports is available here: <http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelProblems> Thanks!

[Ben Collins (ben-collins)]

There's plenty of description here.

I just need to know if the latest kernel (2.6.20-8) works for you.

Thanks.

[Guus (guus-der-kinderen)]

I just did a apt-get dist-upgrade that boosted my kernel to 2.6.20-9. I don't have to manually load the kernel module anymore after each boot - the wifi card works automatically now.

[Louai Al-Khanji (slougi)]

Hi there,
it works beautifully now. NetworkManager is still broken with the acx driver, but it always has been. Wireless Assistant works perfectly though.

Thanks!