Distribution list/Fedora

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note:

  • This howto works for Fedora Core 6 Zod. Some minor changes should make it usable on FC5 as well though.
  • Compile Errors. Some people seem to have problem compiling the module on kernels >= 2.6.20 using the steps below. If you get compile errors mentioning the number of arguments passed to "INIT_WORK", try doing a manual installation, outside the kernel tree, as described here. (Shown to work on 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 and others)


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Installing kernel headers

Start by firing up a terminal and switching to root by (mind the `-') 

su -

Establish which kernel release you are running 

uname -r

Check if the according kernel-devel packages are installed 

yum list installed kernel-devel

i586!=i686, make sure this matches with what you are running. There`s a bug in anaconda which might have wrongfully installed i586 more

If its not installed yet do so by 

yum install kernel-devel

Verify that all went well by 

cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`
ls -l

note the location of the `build' link and check it against the following output 

cd /usr/src/kernels/
ls -l

If the headers arent there try to find out more 

find / -name *<kernel-version-here>*


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Obtaining build tool, source and firmware packages

To build the kernel module we'll use dkms, which is available in the extras repository 

yum install --enablerepo=extras dkms

Neither the acx source nor the firmware is available on official repositories. However both freshrpms and Dries hold them. Lets activate freshrpms 

rpm -ivh http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/6/freshrpms-release/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm

Next install the required packages 

yum install acx100-firmware acx111-firmware dkms-tiacx


cabocdrontr

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Building, installing and adding acx to the kernel

Compile the module through dkms. You`ll need the dkms-tiacx package version, which was echo`ed by the yum install command above. At the time of writing this verion info was `0.4.7-3'. 

dkms build -m tiacx -v <version>

This should print `DKMS: build completed'. The compiled module is situated in /var/lib/dkms/tiacx/<version>/`uname -r`/<architecture>/module/ If this step fails you probably havent got the kernel headers installed properly.

Note: The build did not work with kernel 2.6.20-1.2948.fc6, it failed with an error message "(bad exit status: 2)" and instructions to look in a file called make.log. Reading that log, and googling for the error message led me to this page http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=150622 . Applying the patch linked to by the last post at least let me get through the compilation. /Christian Ridderström

Next insert with 

dkms install -m tiacx -v <version>

All is well if `DKMS: install Completed.' got echo`ed ...

Nearly there now, load the module with 

modprobe acx

or (works for FC5) 

modprobe acx-pci

or 

modprobe acx-usb

depending on if you have the PCI or USB version of the chipset.

Note: when upgrading your kernel you`ll have to recompile and reinstall with dkms, which is quite painless.

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Verifying

You can check if all was succesfull with:

a/ lsmod which lists the currently running kernel modules 

lsmod | grep acx

this should output acx


b/ Watching the led on your card go green, if any.


c/ 

iwconfig

An interface named `wlan0' or the like indicates success.


If any of the above isnt true try to find out more with 

dmesg
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Configuring your card

Refer to the manuals of `ifconfig' and `iwconfig' ... 

man ifconfig
man iwconfig

or for a clean and easy gui run 

system-config-network&

Done~ xD

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