anyone know details about how the acx100 kernel module was compiled?

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Wed Oct 6 06:58:16 UTC 2004


On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 11:48:00PM -0700, John Napiorkowski wrote:

> Unfortunately I inherited a wireless PCcard with this
> non free chipset.  Since I'm pretty newb to Linux, I
> ended up messing around quite a bit before I got this
> piece of hardware to work.  The kernel module for this
> wireless chipset got installed on my laptop somehow (I
> messed around in Synaptic quite a bit) so all that was
> needed was to install the firmware files from the
> windows drivers CD.  However, I ended up needed to add
> some startup parameters to this in ../modules.d to
> make it all work properly, since the directory that
> the acx100 faq at the sourceforge site for this kernel
> module recommends I use didn't seem to work.
> 
> It's actually really easy to make this driver work,
> and I'd like to write a FAQ for the community in
> thanks for all the hard work that has gone into this
> marvelous distro.  However, I'm trying to figure out
> details about how this kernel driver was compiled.  Is
> there anyone out there that knows how I can figure
> this out?

This driver is already included in the default kernel; that's how it made
its way onto your system. :-)

However, you do currently need to supply the firmware yourself:

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1346

If you would write up a how-to document in the wiki, that would be great.

-- 
 - mdz




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