acer laptop wireless enable -- (solved)

[clickwir]

I cannot get this wireless card to turn on, it's got the button on the front of the laptop to turn it on and also indicate on/off/connected.

I've read quite a bit about others trying to get this going and most people seem to hinge around "acerhk". http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~tauber/acerhk/

However, I simply cannot compile it. I've tried manually telling it where the kernel source is, getting it from the Ubuntu repositories and also from kernel.org. The makefile is looking for /include/linux/version.h. That file just doesn't seem to be avaliable in any kernel source I can find.

I'm stuck, I need to compile this but don't know how to give it the files it needs.

Below is the output of the error I get when trying to make.

clickwir@mobile001:~/Desktop/acerhk-0.5.33$ make
awk: cmd. line:1: fatal: cannot open file `/home/clickwir/Desktop/kernel/linux-2.6.15.7/linux-2.6.15.7/include/linux/version.h' for reading (No such file or directory)
awk: cmd. line:1: fatal: cannot open file `/home/clickwir/Desktop/kernel/linux-2.6.15.7/linux-2.6.15.7/include/linux/version.h' for reading (No such file or directory)
cc -I/home/clickwir/Desktop/kernel/linux-2.6.15.7/linux-2.6.15.7/include -c -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -DMODVERSIONS -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -o acerhk.o acerhk.c
In file included from /usr/include/linux/autoconf.h:1,
         from /home/clickwir/Desktop/kernel/linux-2.6.15.7/linux-2.6.15.7/include/linux/config.h:6,
         from acerhk.c:38:
/usr/include/linux/err_kernel_only.h:1:2: error: #error Kernel only header included in userspace
acerhk.c:2973:2: error: #error This driver is only available for X86 architecture
make: *** [acerhk.o] Error 1

[clickwir]

Re: acer laptop wireless enable

BTW, This is an Acer Aspire 3002WLCi with a Broadcom 4318 wireless card.

It's got an AMD Sempron 3100+ cpu and 512mb ram, if that matters.

Network manager sees the card correctly and identifies it and tries to use it, but cannot. Obvisouly because it's not on. If I can just get it to turn on, everything else seems to be in place and ready to go.

Ideally I'd like to be able to push the button on the laptop to turn it on and off, but if I can just run one or two commands to get it turned on, I'd be ok with that as well.

[James1]

Re: acer laptop wireless enable

Hi

I have an Acer 303LMi and it has a Broadcom wifi card. The problem you are having is down to the crd not starting (Driver issue).

Follow the info in the 2nd post on the link below. It works a treat and will allow you to use your wifi.

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...64.0;topicseen

[clickwir]

Re: acer laptop wireless enable

well hot damn that did it. I just assumed I wouldn't need ndiswrapper because everything else was showing it there and ready to go.

But now the light is on and the button works to enable and disable. This is just what I was looking for.

I was using network manager but it wasn't turning on the device, so I was feeling this was another dead end. I decided to reboot just to try it and durring boot up the light started flashing, I didn't even touch anything.

Now that I see how easy it was, I wish I had started there. I would have been done in 10mins instead of spending 2 days on it.

Made it a lot easier to have windows xp on the same drive, just did a find on those file names and copied them over. Thank you so much.

Now I just need to see if I can get WPA2 working. WPA1 works fine with my linksys WRT56GL but when I use WPA2, it doesnt connect. oh well... I'll mess with that later. Just happy it works right now.