Ubutu karmic module ACX dropped ?

[Tim Gardner]

Rene wrote:
> Dear Tim,
> 
> I am ubuntu user since version 6.04.
> I am trying karmic from yesterday and found that my wifi pcmcia DWL-650+
> (ACX111) is not working.
> acx.ko module is missing, and i found while googling that your name was
> associated with :
> [ Tim Gardner ]
> 
>   * [Config] Dropped ubuntu/misc/wireless/acx
>   * [Config] Disabled NDISWRAPPER until the compile issues are fixed.
> 
> I tried to compile (succesfully) acx module, versions 20080112 and
> 20080210.
> but when drivers loads default firmware, the system freezes ...
> 
> I can't find a bug attached to this issue. Is there any?
> If I can help by testing, tell me.
> 
> 04:00.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless
> Interface
>         Subsystem: D-Link System Inc Device 3b05
>         Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
>         Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
>         Latency: 64
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
>         Region 0: Memory at 44020000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> [size=8K]
>         Region 1: Memory at 44000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> [size=128K]
>         Capabilities: <access denied>
>         Kernel driver in use: acx_pci
>         Kernel modules: acx
> 
> Best regards
> Rene

IIRC we deleted the acx driver because it was seriously broken and 
unmaintained, as evidenced by your report of lockup at load time.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com