Wireless card stopped working immediately after upgrading 7.04 --> 7.10

[Adam M]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the tip. I looked through Synaptic for both 'firmware' and
'acx' and didn't find anything relevant. However, I did find the
following couple webpages relating to this problem:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22/+bug/118539

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=521614


Someone posted a driver that supposedly works, but I'm hesitant to
install some random driver off a message forum.

I wonder if this is something to expect the Ubuntu team to address, or
should I go out and buy a new wireless card, or try the driver posted on
that forum?

Thanks again,
Adam



On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:01:28 -0700, "Steven Ringwald"
<ringwald at gmail.com> said:
> Sounds to me like the kernel driver is looking for the firmware image for
> the device, being kept in a file/directory named 'acx/1.2.1.34/tiacx111'.
> Is there an optional package that you needed to install called *-firmware
> or something like that? I know that when they went to the newer kernels,
> the driver developers stopped including the firmware with the kernel
> (something about the license of the firmware vs. GPL), so they made them
> stand-alone packages. You might want to give that a shot.
> 
> Steve