DWL-650+ No Longer Supported (Texas Instrument ACX 100)

[Damon Timm]

Binary package hint: linux-source-2.6.20

In Short: DWL-650+ WiFi card (ACX 100) worked fine, plug-and-play capability, in Edgy (on the LiveCD, even) but not in Fiesty. Am running (uname -a): Linux DELL 2.6.20-11-generic #2 SMP Thu Mar 15 08:03:07 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux.

I will attach my dmesg log and lspci -vvnn output as well. I don't know much about linux, sorry, hopefully this was helpful enough. I did notice a couple other bugs referencing similar problems. http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/Distribution_list/Ubuntu

Also, a dpkg -l | grep -i restricted-modules shows: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-11-generic 2.6.20.3-11.10.

Thanks.

[Otto Kekäläinen (otto)]

I confirm this. It is an issue with missing firmware. If one uses network-manager, then it is also an issue with wpa_supplicant failing.

Please read:
http://otto.kekalainen.net/acx111-feisty-issue.txt

[Alberto Bulfon (moebius-seriousdelirium)]

I confirm this too:

lspci:

02:00.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface
 Subsystem: D-Link System Inc DWL-G650+ AirPlusG+ CardBus Wireless LAN
 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-
 Latency: 64
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
 Region 0: Memory at 24020000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
 Region 1: Memory at 24000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
 Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
  Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-)
  Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

Uname -a:
Linux vegeta 2.6.20-14-generic #2 SMP Mon Apr 2 20:37:49 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

The Ubuntu Kernel Team is planning to move to the 2.6.27 kernel for the upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release. As a result, the kernel team would appreciate it if you could please test this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel. There are one of two ways you should be able to test:

1) If you are comfortable installing packages on your own, the linux-image-2.6.27-* package is currently available for you to install and test.

--or--

2) The upcoming Alpha5 for Intrepid Ibex 8.10 will contain this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel. Alpha5 is set to be released Thursday Sept 4. Please watch http://www.ubuntu.com/testing for Alpha5 to be announced. You should then be able to test via a LiveCD.

Please let us know immediately if this newer 2.6.27 kernel resolves the bug reported here or if the issue remains. More importantly, please open a new bug report for each new bug/regression introduced by the 2.6.27 kernel and tag the bug report with 'linux-2.6.27'. Also, please specifically note if the issue does or does not appear in the 2.6.26 kernel. Thanks again, we really appreicate your help and feedback.

[Damon Timm (damontimm)]

I actually ended up getting rid of this network card in favor of
something more stable -- sorry ... so I can't test it anymore. Maybe
someone else still has theirs around and can help.

Thanks for following up though ... and I will get back on bug patrol
eventually when I have some more time. Appreciate all your work.

Damon

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Leann Ogasawara <email address hidden> wrote:
> The Ubuntu Kernel Team is planning to move to the 2.6.27 kernel for the
> upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release. As a result, the kernel team would
> appreciate it if you could please test this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel.
> There are one of two ways you should be able to test:
>
> 1) If you are comfortable installing packages on your own, the linux-
> image-2.6.27-* package is currently available for you to install and
> test.
>
> --or--
>
> 2) The upcoming Alpha5 for Intrepid Ibex 8.10 will contain this newer
> 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel. Alpha5 is set to be released Thursday Sept 4.
> Please watch http://www.ubuntu.com/testing for Alpha5 to be announced.
> You should then be able to test via a LiveCD.
>
> Please let us know immediately if this newer 2.6.27 kernel resolves the
> bug reported here or if the issue remains. More importantly, please
> open a new bug report for each new bug/regression introduced by the
> 2.6.27 kernel and tag the bug report with 'linux-2.6.27'. Also, please
> specifically note if the issue does or does not appear in the 2.6.26
> kernel. Thanks again, we really appreicate your help and feedback.
>
> ** Tags added: cft-2.6.27
>
> --
> DWL-650+ No Longer Supported (Texas Instrument ACX 100)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94280
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> of the bug.
>

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Thanks for the update Damon. I'll just go ahead and close this report for now since you no longer have access to the hardware to test. If anyone else has the same card and is able to test and confirm the issue still exists with the 2.6.27 kernel, please feel free to reopen this report by flipping the status back to "New". Thanks.

[Gazza (info-crcremote)]

Hi Mark

The dlink card causes the computer to freeze so i have used the inexq card and here is the output you asked for

garry@garry-laptop:~$ nm-tool

NetworkManager Tool

State: disconnected

- Device: eth0 ----------------------------------------------------------------
  Type: Wired
  Driver: sis900
  State: unavailable
  Default: no
  HW Address: 00:90:F5:06:E1:87

  Capabilities:
    Supported: yes
    Carrier Detect: yes
    Speed: 10 Mb/s

  Wired Settings

- Device: wlan0 ----------------------------------------------------------------
  Type: 802.11 WiFi
  Driver: NULL(info.linux.driver)
  State: disconnected
  Default: no
  HW Address: 00:00:00:00:00:00

  Capabilities:
    Supported: yes

  Wireless Settings
    WEP Encryption: yes
    WPA Encryption: yes
    WPA2 Encryption: yes

  Wireless Access Points

garry@garry-laptop:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

pan0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
          Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
          Tx-Power=0 dBm
          Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

garry@garry-laptop:~$ ping -c 4 google.com
ping: unknown host google.com
garry@garry-laptop:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:f5:06:e1:87
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x3200

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
          RX packets:238 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:238 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:15024 (15.0 KB) TX bytes:15024 (15.0 KB)

garry@garry-laptop:~$ netstat -r
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
garry@garry-laptop:~$ sudo lshw -c network
[sudo] password for garry:

Hope this is better for you

Garry

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