Re: [Sheflug] ubuntu wifi

[David Johnson <dj [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 16 September 2005 21:30, John Southern wrote:
>
> The 25 August entry on http://www.david-web.co.uk/blog/ suggests a way, but
> this does involve changing the card firmware.
>

That's my site :-)

You have to upload a firmware image every time you initialise the card in any 
case, I just spent some time finding out which combination of firmware and 
kernel module work best.
Following those instructions should get you up and running.

On Friday 16 September 2005 08:11, paul_sims [at] ntlworld.com wrote:
>
> 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.
>

That's what happens if you're not uploading any firmware into the card. 
[K]Ubuntu doesn't include the necessary firmware for this card, so you'll 
have to download it from elsewhere (there's a link on my blog entry linked 
above).

Regards,
David.

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