D-Link not recognized in Gutsy

[bert07]

Wireless (D-Link Airplus G+ DWL-G520+) does not show up in the "Network" dialogue after upgrading from Feisty to Gutsy with an alternate install cd.
The acx files are in the firmware directory for the appropriate kernel 2.6.22-7.
This is happening since the first tribe release till today and also goes for Xubuntu and Kubuntu.

This PCI card worked (works) excellent under Edgy and Feisty, so I wonder how come I get problems now and I can no longer get wireless access...

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately we can't fix it, because your description doesn't yet have enough information.
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[bert07 (marien.bert)]

This is going to take a while. I removed the update this night, so I have to reinstall it. Patients.

[bert07 (marien.bert)]

By the way: none of the tribes recognized my Belkin PCMCIA card (rt2500) on my Dell laptop either.

[bert07 (marien.bert)]

uname -a

[bert07 (marien.bert)]

dmesg

[bert07 (marien.bert)]

lspci -vvnn

[bert07 (marien.bert)]

cat /proc/version_signature > version.log
no such file or directory

The proc directory is empty.

[bert07 (marien.bert)]

Downloaded Tribe 3 today. Updated Feisty with the alternate i386 cd.
I still have the same problem: no wireless shows up at the network tool.
I also tried the i386 desktop cd on my Dell laptop: same problem. I also got an
"Internal error: failed to initialize HAL!"

Anyway: here are the new log files from my desktop pc:

cat /proc/version_signature > version.log
no such file or directory

The proc directory is completely empty.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

If you haven't, make sure you have the appropriate linux-restricted-modules for your kernel installed.

[bert07 (marien.bert)]

I would, if I would know how to do that. I'm still new at Ubuntu and Linux. (Feb. this year)

[bert07 (marien.bert)]

The drivers voor d-linkg520+ zijn er
/lib/firmware/2.6.22-8-generic/acx/default

linux-restricted-modules 2.6.20.* is installed
linux-restricted-modules-2.6 2.6.22.2-8.4 is installed
linux-restricted-modules-cor 2.6.22.2-8.4 is installed
linux-restricted-modules-ger 2.6.22.8.8 is installed
restricted-manager 0.23 is installed
ubuntu-restricted-extras 2.2

running restricted-manager says: your hardware does not need any restricted drivers

[bert07 (marien.bert)]

This is the same bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22/+bug/128054

[hexion (hexium)]

I have the same issue.

The problem is the module acx, it cannot be loaded:

$ sudo modprobe acx
FATAL: Error inserting acx (/lib/modules/2.6.22-8-generic/ubuntu/wireless/acx/acx.ko): Invalid argument

Running 2.6.20 kernel in Gutsy (from Feisty, I didn't uninstall it) on the same system, acx is loaded and the card works without problems.

[hexion (hexium)]

Changed package to linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22 since the module is here: /lib/modules/2.6.22-9-generic/ubuntu/wireless/acx/acx.ko

Still present in 2.6.22-9
$ uname -a
Linux patatilla 2.6.22-9-generic #1 SMP Mon Jul 30 18:00:27 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
$ sudo modprobe acx
FATAL: Error inserting acx (/lib/modules/2.6.22-9-generic/ubuntu/wireless/acx/acx.ko): Invalid argument
$dmesg
...
[ 411.124000] acx: Loaded combined PCI/USB driver, firmware_ver=default

[si (menzies-conachers)]

I think that this is a duplicate of
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22/+bug/118539

[bert07 (marien.bert)]

I agree with si.

[bert07 (marien.bert)]

I installed Tribe 4 today. Still the same: the ACX files are there /lib/firmware/kernel***/acx/acxfiles but the wireless does not show up in the network configurator.

[hexion (hexium)]

bert07, try the howto I posted some hours ago:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=521614

BTW, I marked this bug report as a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/118539
Post better there.

[Joachim Frieben (jfrieben)]

As I had pointed out in Bug #118539, this issue is essentially solved and was due to ACX sources from early 2007 which do not take into account the new mac80211 wireless stack of the 2.6.22 kernel whereas snapshot acx-20070610 does. I recommend posting any further coment in Bug #118539. Thanks!

Btw, the build procedure can be simplified even further: unpack the source tar ball in your home directory. You cd into acx-20070610 and type

   make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd`

Then you grab acx.ko and proceed e.g. as described in hexion's HOWTO.

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