5 Mar
2004
5 Mar
'04
10:18 a.m.
Hi,
ouch, welcome to the club :-(
... and the TI
ACX100 chipset, used in those 22Mbit/s cards.
Try to stay away from those, even if by now there's a FOSS driver
available at http://acx100.sourceforge.net/ - because it's
x86-only and certainly because of the extremely stupid politics
of TI in this matter.
I'm right now toying around with one of these cards (A Dlink DWL
650+). I am using the FOSS driver, but I have the following
problem:
- the drivers inserts fine, no crashes, ...
- but the card doesn't see my Accesspoint, even though ESSID and channel
correspond. No WEP is configured.
Sounds familiar, but I should try again - apparently changes were
made here at the AP level, so maybe things work now - I'll have to
check using a 2.4 kernel (the laptop normally is on 2.6 now).
I still might run into problems, as WEP is active in the house,
IIRC the documentation from the last version I tested said sth
that WEP didn't work well (at all?) as yet.
The access point is a KTI KW-111.
Sounds like Circuit? :-) Do you know which chipset KTI uses in their
PCMCIA or PCI cards? They seemed interesting, the vendor told me they
work on Linux...
The AP had previously worked with a
different card, so by itself, the AP should be ok.
I also tried ndiswrapper with the card, but unfortunately the card's
NDIS drivers need a couple of symbols which are not yet supported by
ndiswrapper.
I also didn't as yet get the Centrino thing working with ndiswrapper
on kernel 2.6.0, didn't try though with the DLink card.
Anybody has any ideas?
Yes, exchange the card for something better supported, if you still
have that option (I don't).
Greets, Eric