TI ACX 111 based wireless nic [netgear]

[majisterludi]

Hi,

I have used this card easily on a number of distros, but vector has always been very easy and friendy using ndiswrapper. I have been using vector 5.9 standard and Lite.  However, when I install Vector 6 there is no joy. Installing ndiswrapper and the drivers from the vendors cd locks up the system. OK, there is a conflict. Using lspci i see my card listed as ACX 111, but I don't have a clue as to how to find the driver, alias it, blacklist it, delete it and install ndiswrapper and/or etc.

This is probably covered somewhere. Please point me in the appropriate direction. Have spent a lot of hours and would like to make progress.

THanks muchly,

dan

[hata_ph]

pls provide output for lspci, lsmod and ifconfig -a

[majisterludi]

root:# lspci
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51G [GeForce 6100] (rev a2)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a2)
00:0a.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev a1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.2 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 AC97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
03:06.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface

root:# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
lp                     10372  0
snd_seq_dummy           3716  0
snd_seq_oss            31872  0
snd_seq_midi_event      6912  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                48368  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          7436  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            37408  0
snd_mixer_oss          15104  1 snd_pcm_oss
speedstep_lib           4740  0
freq_table              4352  0
fuse                   53788  2
snd_intel8x0           29980  2
snd_ac97_codec         99492  1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus                2432  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                67972  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
usblp                  12416  0
snd_timer              19976  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    51492  14 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               7008  1 snd
rtc_cmos               10144  0
i2c_nforce2             7044  0
snd_page_alloc          8840  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
rtc_core               15132  1 rtc_cmos
k8temp                  4992  0
rtc_lib                 3328  1 rtc_core
i2c_core               21268  1 i2c_nforce2
evdev                  10144  4
parport_pc             35908  1
parport                31724  2 lp,parport_pc


root:# ifconfig -a
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  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:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

[Daniel]

Are you sure that your card needs to use ndiswrapper? Your "ifconfig -a" shows that you don't have any network interfaces running. Have you tried running netconf in vasm?

[bigpaws]

Before you get lost.

Lets' start from the beginning.

Please include Netgear wireless card name,make,model and version number.

Also post the lspci for the NIC card.

From there we can get you going.

Bigpaws

[majisterludi]

netgear  wg311v2 pci card

03:06.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface


vasm says  no wireless card found

[hata_ph]

try this

http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page
http://hardware4linux.info/component/27573/
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-60635.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-wireless-networking-41/texas-instruments-acx-111-54mbps-wireless-interface-without-ndiswrapper-408685/