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'I have read quite a lot on this and other fora concerning a problem with these, and am hoping someone has an up-to-date solution. I am using Linux Mint 10 Gnome from a USB stick without installing on a Dell Inspiron Laptop.

It tells me that I need a non-free driver for the Broadcom wireless facility. When I search for new drivers, it tells me what I need and then I try to Activate it. It connects to the internet (via a temporary wired connection) and tells me it is downloading and installing the drivers After a while it stops with the error message: SystemError: installArchives failed I have reloaded the packages in Package Manager and searched for Broadcom SDA (STA?), but there appears to be nothing available. Any ideas as to how I overcome this please? Those broadcom wifi devices are a pain. When in Linux Mint, open Synaptic Package Manager Completely remove (right click and choose 'Mark for complete removal') the following firmware-b43-installer dkms bcmwl-kernel-source Apply the changes and then (without closing up synaptic) install bcmwl-kernel-source Now you can go to the Additional Drivers application and enable the driver.

This should work but if it does not you may need to do this manually and reboot. The problem with that is rebooting may loose your changes in a 'Live' environment. Your mileage may vary. I haven't tried it myself.

From a the Terminal, run the following sudo apt-get -purge remove firmware-b43-installer sudo apt-get -purge remove dkms sudo apt-get -purge remove bcmwl-kernel-source sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source sudo reboot. Let's take a step back and begin at the beginning. I should have mentioned, you need an internet connection. If your laptop has a network jack, go ahead and connect it to your wifi router directly so you can access the internet to download and install drivers. In fact, you may just need to connect to the internet so you can enable the STA driver. It's not included with Linux Mint and you need an internet connection to download it before you can activate it. However, if the STA driver doesn't work, your Linux Mint installation includes bcmwl-modialiases for the Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA driver that contains a a list of pci id's which makes it possible to detect the model of a Broadcom wireless card.

To verify your card, open up a terminal and run lspci -vnn grep 14e4 That command is going to output information for your device. It should look something like this 0000:02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) Now you know what chipset you actually have. If you see BCM4311, BCM4312, BCM4313, BCM4321, BCM4322, BCM43224, BCM43225, BCM43227 or BCM43228 then the STA driver from Broadcom is the one to use. If you don't have one of the STA supported devices, you will need to check to see if it supported by the B43 or B43-legacy drivers.

Compare your results with this list and/or To further confuse the issue, your firmware revision will make a difference on whether to use the B43 or B43-legacy driver. Firmware rev 03 devices will only work with the B43-legacy driver. Some devices can be updated to Firmware rev 04 if it is supported by the B43 driver.

Follow this link for information on installing the latest firmware for your device That should keep you busy for a while. Good luck and let us know how it turns out. Final note: I'd just pick up a cheap supported USB WiFi adapter rather than mess with making a Broadcom chip work. Broadcom has not exactly been helpful with their devices in the past. They are getting better but Atheros and Intel chipset are the way to go - IMO. William, I am trying this on my old Dell 4100 (HD install) and after I follow this process, there is nothing in the additional drivers but the Nvidia-96 drivers. Should I install the firmware-b43-installer or the firmware-b43legacy-installer?

Those drivers are for the broadcom 43XX line of devices. You have a Texas Instruments ACX 111.

You can find those drivers here Unfortunately your device is not fully supported. Here are the current notes on the ACX111 Works with WPA with ndswrapper drivers and without NetworkManager (wpasupplicant from command line). Using ndswrapper with the Windows drivers may be a viable alternative.

Hi everyone, my notebook has a Draytek Vigor 520 WiFi card which uses the TI acx100 chip. To connect to my university's WLAN, I need WPA EAP/TLS support, so I was relieved to hear that the acx driver development is a least heading this way.:) But up to now I couldn't figure out how to get either the softmac or the mac80211 port of the driver. I git-cloned the wireless-dev tree as described in the Wiki, but I was astonished that the driver is obviously that closely bound to a specific kernel tree. What if I also want to use driver XYZ which is also only available in it's own git kernel tree? Can these two trees simply be merged? Is there no way of applying the acx driver (and if neccessary the mac80211 layer) to my current 2.6.21-4 kernel tree and then recompile? Sorry, but I'm all new to this git stuff and totally confused.:-/ Greets, Eric.

Development might be (slowly) heading this way, but the softmac and mac80211 drivers are in a very early stage of development, and I do not think WPA is yet implemented in any of them. As far as I can understand, there has been more development effort in the softmac port in the past, so it might not be as 'alpha software' as the mac80211 driver. In any case, development there seems to be stalled and the mac80211 stack is what will be used in the mainline kernel in the future. Regarding the mac80211 driver, my experience is that it compiles fine, but on my acx111 chipset it freezes the kernel at some point during initialisation, so I cannot really use it atm. I believe this driver 'flavour' is the way to go, but it is still in alpha stage. The fact that the mac80211 driver was (not anymore) bound to the wireless-dev tree was because the mac80211 stack had still not made it into the kernel. Some days ago the it was merged to the main kernel tree (2.6.22-rc7), so now in theory you could compile the mac80211 driver against Linus' tree instead of wireless-dev.

I say in theory because I haven't had the chance to try it yet. Regarding your question about compiling the mac80211 driver against vanilla 2.6.21: no, you cannot do it. As I said, the mac80211 stack got to mainline at 2.6.22-rc7. It might be possible to do what you are saying (add the stack to 2.6.21), of course, but I think it might not be worth the effort. I'd rather advise you to download either the current 2.6.22 or wireless-dev trees. Regarding softmac, it should work with yout 2.6.21 kernel, since the softmac stack was already there. You can get the current acx softmac port from the wireless-2.6-legacy tree.

As a matter of fact, the 'acx-mac80211.ko' kernel module builds fine when using the 'acx-mac0610.tar.bz2' snapshot. However, the trouble begins after creating the entries in the '/proc' directory: '. Creating /proc entry driver/acxphy acx v0.3.36-mac80211: net device phy0, driver compiled against wireless extensio ns 22 and Linux 2.6.22.1-20.fc7 using IRQ 11 acx: ieee80211registerhw FAILED: -22 - cut here - kernel BUG at include/net/wireless.h:100!

Invalid opcode: 0000 #1 SMP last sysfs file: /class/firmware/0000:00:11.0/loading.' Using acx-mac1003.tar.bz2 tindog:/usr/src/linux-2.6.23-rc9-git4 # make modules CHK include/linux/version.h CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh CC M drivers/net/wireless/acx/pci.o drivers/net/wireless/acx/pci.c: In function ‘acxpcieprobe’: drivers/net/wireless/acx/pci.c:1458: warning: suggest parentheses around arithmetic in operand of LD M drivers/net/wireless/acx/acx-mac80211.o Building modules, stage 2.

MODPOST 1072 modules WARNING: Can't handle masks in drivers/mtd/nand/cafenand:FFFF0 CC drivers/net/wireless/acx/acx-mac80211.mod.o LD M drivers/net/wireless/acx/acx-mac80211.ko tindog:/usr/src/linux-2.6.23-rc9-git4 # make modules CHK include/linux/version.h CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh CC M drivers/net/wireless/acx/pci.o LD M drivers/net/wireless/acx/acx-mac80211.o Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 1072 modules WARNING: Can't handle masks in drivers/mtd/nand/cafenand:FFFF0 CC drivers/net/wireless/acx/acx-mac80211.mod.o LD M drivers/net/wireless/acx/acx-mac80211.ko - CHANGES TO drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig, added from acx/Kconfig config ACXMAC80211PCI bool 'TI acx100/acx111 802.11b/g PCI' depends on ACXMAC80211 && PCI -help- Include PCI and CardBus support in acx. Acx chipsets need their firmware loaded at startup. You will need to provide a firmware image via hotplug. Firmware may be in a form of single image 40-100kb in size (a 'combined' firmware) or two images - main image (again 40-100kb) and radio image (10kb or less).

Firmware images are requested from hotplug using following names: tiacx100 - main firmware image for acx100 chipset tiacx100rNN - radio acx100 firmware for radio type NN tiacx100cNN - combined acx100 firmware for radio type NN tiacx111 - main acx111 firmware tiacx111rNN - radio acx111 firmware for radio type NN tiacx111cNN - combined acx111 firmware for radio type NN Driver will attempt to load combined image first. If no such image is found, it will try to load main image and radio image instead.

Firmware files are not covered by GPL and are not distributed with this driver for legal reasons. Source 'drivers/net/wireless/acx/Kconfig' ### Adding this line alone didn't work ###. Endmenu - Added parentheses to line 1458 of pci.c. Ieee-flags &= IEEE80211HWRXINCLUDESFCS & (IEEE80211HWMONITORDURINGOPER IEEE80211HWWEPINCLUDEIV); From 'make modulesinstall' INSTALL drivers/net/wireless/acx/acx-mac80211.ko if -r System.map -a -x /sbin/depmod ; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map 2.6.23-rc9-git4-smp; fi # Booted into runlevel 3, the first time all went well until 'iwlist scan wlan0' where I got an oops, ALT-SYSRQ-S/U/B effected a reboot.

I didn't write the message down, but it was something to do with binding??? And 'owned by CPU1', then the oops. The second time 'iwlist scan wlan0' gave a hard hang needing a hard reset. Looks like a problem with MP kernel.

Acx 111 54mbps Wireless Interface Driver For Mac Download

Just seen it in /var/log/messages. Oct 6 20:10:25 tindog smartd4248: smartd has forked into background mode. New PID=4248. Acx-mac80211-vlynq-20071006.tar.bz2 with kernel 2.6.23-rc9-git4. Oops and hard lockup with 'ifconfig wlan0 up'.

Acx 111 54mbps Wireless Interface Driver For Mac Pro

BUG: spinlock cpu recursion CPU#1,swapper/0 lock: ffff810115a79c28.magic:dead4ead,.owner:events/1/10.ownercpu:1 Call Trace: rawspinlock+0x5c/0xf8 :acxmac80211:acxpciiinterrupt+0x22/0x11a handleIRQevent+0x25/0x53 handlefasteoiirq+0x9a/0xd9 doIRQ+0xf1/0x162 defaultidle+0x0/0x3d defaultidle+0x0/0x3d retfromintr+0x0/0xa cpuidle+0x8e/0xb1 BUG: spinlock on CPU#1,swapper/0,ffff810115a79c28 Call Trace: rawspinlock+0xd1/0xf8 Rest of trace the same as previous one above. Hope this helps.

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