ACX100 Kernel Modules

[Darren Critchley]

Hello,

    I just installed Ubuntu the other day and have been working with it 
quite a bit. I have tried two machines, the first was a Duron 1.3gig 
with built video, etc and it worked fine except for the X in the middle 
of the screen (which I have already found the posts that say how to 
correct that)

    And the second machine is an IBM Thinkpad 390X, which almost 
everything worked (the third mouse button doesn't seem to work, but I 
have not had time to work with it). Anyways, as with all laptops, pcmcia 
is always fun, particularly in the wireless area. I have three wireless 
cards, a dlink 650 v2 which is one of the originals and is well 
supported, an SMC 2632W v2 (atmel chipset) which is not as well 
supported, and a Dlink 650+ which is not supported (well barely).

    So I got the SMC running merely by adding the wlan-ng from Synaptic 
and that worked great.
    The DWL 650+ took more work, I had to install the acx100 drivers 
(acx100.sourceforge.net), now I notice that there is an older acx100 
kernel module installed already (I could not get it to work, but I see 
in the archives that someone else has).

 My question is, which version of the acx100 is this, and do the 
developers have any plans to go to the latest acx100 module which has 
many new features? Or should this question be directed to the dev list?

Since installing this module, the 650+ works, but the pcmcia slot does 
not behave as it should, and it takes a very long time to activate the 
card, is this normal behaviour when using a windows firmware in Linux?

Thanks
Darren