Re: [Sheflug] ubuntu wifi

[John Southern <john [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 16 September 2005 16:29, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
On Friday 16 September 2005 08:11, paul_sims [at] ntlworld.com wrote:
>> recently bought some wifi kit from eBuyer, (Safecom SWLC54108, 11g) 
>> to work with both XP & linux-based laptops. I'm having real problems
>> getting the Safecom SWLC54108 working. This is a Cardbus (i.e. pci
>> for laptops) which is based on the Ti ACX111 chipset and should be
>> supported by the native acx_pci module.

> Ohh...  no !  Not the Safecom road to doom !  <crashes head into table>

> I've had several non-working bits of Safecom hardware from Maplins. 
> Had to take all of it back.  Didn't work with Debian or SuSE or
> Mandrake.  Maybe someone else had a better experience but mine was
> awful.

The 25 August entry on http://www.david-web.co.uk/blog/ suggests a way, but 
this does involve changing the card firmware.

Whereas http://adsltech.com/portal/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1913&KW=linux has 
the PCI card running under the Linuxant wrapper.

>> Ubuntu detects the card fine & installed the acx_pci module for it, and the 
>> card showed up in lspci, iwconfig, ipconfig etc.  However, the power light 
>> never comes on (i know that this can be software-set so I played about   
>> with this - I couldn't turn the led on manually either. Forcing a scan 
>> results in no access points showing up.  

What did you do to power on the light  LED_OFF=1 ?
Are access points close by?
What does a scan on iwlist?

John
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