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**opie** · Oct 09, 2007, 12:48 AM

Re: Netgear WG311v2 not working after video card install

Open a terminal window kmenu -> system -> konsole and type or paste the following and post the output for each of the following commands.

dmesg | grep acx

iwconfig

ifconfig

**ZAZZ** · Oct 09, 2007, 02:08 PM

Re: Netgear WG311v2 not working after video card install

dmesg | grep acx

[ 47.652739] acx: Loaded combined PCI/USB driver, firmware_ver=default
[ 47.652744] acx: compiled to use 32bit I/O access. I/O timing issues might occur, such as non-working firmware upload. Report them
[ 47.652830] acx: found ACX111-based wireless network card at 0000:00:0b.0, irq:19, phymem1:0xEE020000, phymem2:0xEE000000, mem1:0xffffc2000001c000, mem1_size:8192, mem2:0xffffc20000080000, mem2_size:131072
[ 47.653829] acx: loading firmware for acx1111 chipset with radio ID 16
[ 47.681778] acx: firmware image 'acx/1.2.1.34/tiacx111c16' was not provided. Check your hotplug scripts
[ 47.688963] acx: firmware image 'acx/1.2.1.34/tiacx111' was not provided. Check your hotplug scripts
[ 47.688968] acx: reset_dev() FAILED
[ 47.706514] acx_pci: probe of 0000:00:0b.0 failed with error -5
[ 47.706626] usbcore: registered new interface driver acx_usb

iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:85:C9

9:C1
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:23 Base address:0xc000

eth0:avah Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:85:C9

9:C1
inet addr:169.254.10.163 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:23 Base address:0xc000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:72 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:72 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:7128 (6.9 KiB) TX bytes:7128 (6.9 KiB)

Thanks,
-ZAZZ

**opie** · Oct 09, 2007, 05:31 PM

Re: Netgear WG311v2 not working after video card install

Ok, lets copy a few firmware files from their original directory and see if that solves the problem.

Under directory :
/lib/firmware/<your kernel version>/acx/1.2.1.34

there will be two files

tiacx111
tiacx111c16

We will copy these files into directory:
/lib/firmware/<your kernel version>
so they are in the standard firmware location with all the other firmware files

You can copy and paste the commands I have written below in a terminal window. Sudo requires your user password. It is best to copy and then paste them with shift-insert rather than typing them out yourself to make sure there are no errors. Note the uname -r is in backquotes. This ensures the command uname -r will return the kernel version which is also the name of the proper subdirectory in firmware where the files are located:

sudo cp /lib/firmware/`uname -r`/acx/1.2.1.34/tiacx111 /lib/firmware/`uname -r`

sudo cp /lib/firmware/`uname -r`/acx/1.2.1.34/tiacx111c16 /lib/firmware/`uname -r`

Then paste this command

ls /lib/firmware/`uname -r` | grep acx

to make sure that the tiacx111 and
tiacx111c16 files show up in the output. If they don't show up in the list there was an error copying, in which case you can manually copy the files using :

kdesu konqueror

which will load konqueror as root.

Once you are sure the files were copied reboot the machine and run

dmesg | grep acx
again and post the results

If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask.

**ZAZZ** · Oct 09, 2007, 11:14 PM

Re: Netgear WG311v2 not working after video card install

It appears that that directory does not even exist. I did an ls -a command in konsole to verify that it was not hidden:

zac@ZZ-LX:/lib/firmware/2.6.20-16-generic$ ls -a
. ipw2100-1.3-p.fw
.. ipw2200-bss.fw
aic94xx-seq.fw ipw2200-ibss.fw
atmel_at76c502_3com.bin ipw2200-sniffer.fw
atmel_at76c502_3com-wpa.bin ipw3945.ucode
atmel_at76c502.bin isl3877
atmel_at76c502d.bin isl3886
atmel_at76c502d-wpa.bin isl3887usb_bare
atmel_at76c502e.bin isl3890
atmel_at76c502e-wpa.bin isl3890usb
atmel_at76c502-wpa.bin iwlwifi-3945.ucode
atmel_at76c503-i3861.bin ql2100_fw.bin
atmel_at76c503-i3863.bin ql2200_fw.bin
atmel_at76c503-rfmd-0.90.2-140.bin ql2300_fw.bin
atmel_at76c503-rfmd-acc.bin ql2322_fw.bin
atmel_at76c503-rfmd.bin ql2400_fw.bin
atmel_at76c504_2958-wpa.bin rt2561.bin
atmel_at76c504a_2958-wpa.bin rt2561s.bin
atmel_at76c504.bin rt2661.bin
atmel_at76c504c-wpa.bin rt73.bin
atmel_at76c505a-rfmd2958.bin v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw
atmel_at76c505-rfmd2958.bin v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw
atmel_at76c505-rfmd.bin v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg
atmel_at76c506.bin v4l-cx25840.fw
atmel_at76c506-wpa.bin v4l-pvrusb2-24xxx-01.fw
ipw2100-1.3.fw v4l-pvrusb2-29xxx-01.fw
ipw2100-1.3-i.fw zd1211

A missing driver perhaps?

Thanks,
-ZAZZ

EDIT: it does appear that the driver has gone missing. Any idea as to where I can find this driver, and how to install it. My google skills apparently aren't good enough

**opie** · Oct 10, 2007, 08:28 AM

Re: Netgear WG311v2 not working after video card install

Don't do anything yet but I'm curious as to whether you uninstalled linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-16-generic
when you installed your nvidia driver?

Search in the adept package manager for

restricted

and see if the following is installed or not:

linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-16-generic

**ZAZZ** · Oct 10, 2007, 09:00 AM

Re: Netgear WG311v2 not working after video card install

Its not installed.

Thanks,
-ZAZZ

**opie** · Oct 10, 2007, 02:03 PM

Re: Netgear WG311v2 not working after video card install

For my peace of mind paste the results(in terminal window) of

uname -r

here one final time.

I'm not going to ask you to install the restricted modules because I'm afraid we might break something. Instead I'm going to direct you to the repository file and show you how to extract the needed firmware files that are included in restricted modules package so you don't have to install the package itself.

So post back the results of uname -r to confirm and we will get started.

**ZAZZ** · Oct 10, 2007, 02:32 PM

Re: Netgear WG311v2 not working after video card install

zac@ZZ-LX:~$ uname -r
2.6.20-16-generic

Thanks,
-ZAZZ

**opie** · Oct 10, 2007, 08:51 PM

Re: Netgear WG311v2 not working after video card install

It is best to copy and paste(with shift-insert) the following commands I give so that there is minimal chance of error.

To avoid clutter lets create a junk directory in your home directory to save and expand the file in.

Open a terminal window:
kmenu -> System -> Konsole

Make a directory, named foo, for the file(this will be right off your home directory:

Code:

mkdir foo

change into the directory(this is important because if you aren't in the directory you save the file to the following won't work):

Code:

cd foo

Here is the link to the ubuntu repository 2.6.20-16-generic firmware file for network cards. Save this file in the foo directory just created. It should be /home/<your_user_name>/foo

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/poo...6.29_i386.udeb

Lets extract the files into this same foo directory. This will create a directory structure off of foo.

Code:

dpkg-deb --extract ./nic-restricted-firmware-2.6.20-16-generic-di_2.6.20.5-16.29_i386.udeb ./

Now you should have a directory structure in foo that goes

/lib/firmware/2.6.20-16-generic/acx/
and acx should contain a series of directories such as:

0.1.0.11
0.4.11.9
1.0.9
1.2.1.34

This mirrors the proper structure off root, but you DON'T want to just copy this lib directory and its subdirectories to root or you will trash your present lib directories and wreck your installation. This may seem obvious but I just want to be very careful here.

Now let's copy only the acx subdirectory in foo to its proper location off of root in the lib directory.

Code:

sudo cp -r ~/foo/lib/firmware/2.6.20-16-generic/acx /lib/firmware/2.6.20-16-generic

Now lets change to the proper directory we copied acx to and make sure the owner is set correctly:

Code:

cd /lib/firmware/2.6.20-16-generic

Now do a ls and make sure the acx directory was copied and exists here(this should return simply "acx".

Code:

ls | grep acx

Then change the owner of the acx directory copied to root

Code:

sudo chown --recursive root:root ./acx

If, at any point, you get errors or things don't seem right post back. If you would prefer to manually copy the acx structure using something like "kdesu konqueror" (note you need to be root, hence kdesu) rather than using my copy command that is fine. Just be careful so you don't mess up your lib directory.

I would really appreciate it if someone would vet this, especially the copy command and chown lines to make sure I didn't make a mistake somewhere. I want to make sure I don't foul something up.

**opie** · Oct 10, 2007, 08:55 PM

Re: Netgear WG311v2 not working after video card install

If all goes well reboot and give us another

dmesg | grep acx

iwconfig

and

ifconfig

**ZAZZ** · Oct 10, 2007, 11:39 PM

Re: Netgear WG311v2 not working after video card install

dmesg | grep acx
[ 45.586452] acx: Loaded combined PCI/USB driver, firmware_ver=default
[ 45.586457] acx: compiled to use 32bit I/O access. I/O timing issues might occur, such as non-working firmware upload. Report them
[ 45.586540] acx: found ACX111-based wireless network card at 0000:00:0b.0, irq:19, phymem1:0xEE020000, phymem2:0xEE000000, mem1:0xffffc2000001c000, mem1_size:8192, mem2:0xffffc20000080000, mem2_size:131072
[ 45.587539] acx: loading firmware for acx1111 chipset with radio ID 16
[ 47.131371] acx: === chipset TNETW1130, radio type 0x16 (Radia), form factor 0x01 ((mini-)PCI / CardBus), EEPROM version 0x05: uploaded firmware 'Rev 1.2.1.34' ===
[ 47.131507] acx v0.3.36: net device wlan0, driver compiled against wireless extensions 21 and Linux 2.6.20-16-generic
[ 47.131565] usbcore: registered new interface driver acx_usb

iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11b+/g+ ESSID:"NETGEAR" Nickname:"acx v0.3.36"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:90:4C:7E:00:29
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity=1/3
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr

ff
Power Management

ff
Link Quality=29/100 Signal level=1/100 Noise level=0/100
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:85:C9

9:C1
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:23 Base address:0xc000

eth0:avah Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:85:C9

9:C1
inet addr:169.254.10.163 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:23 Base address:0xc000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:B5:82:BE:20
inet addr:192.168.1.4 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20f:b5ff:fe82:be20/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:724 errors:10 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:581 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:899416 (878.3 KiB) TX bytes:62590 (61.1 KiB)
Interrupt:19

Well it is working now. To say the least, I owe you a beer!

Thanks a lot,
-ZAZZ

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