Re: Acer 5024WLMI and wireless
On 8/31/05, Tim T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/30/05, Michelasso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/30/05, Tim T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following up on my own post: I found this: acerhk (http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~tauber/acerhk/) Unfortunately, development has stopped. I'd be willing to take a shot at it, but there's some assembler in there, for a 32 bit processor that I'm not familiar with... Anybody here fluent in this ? Give a look here: http://www.archernar.co.uk/acer_acpi/acer_acpi_main.html Thanks to Mark's work the wireless card in my Aspire 5024 is now working. That's thrown my plans for the day.. I was going to go home early, to buy a new network card.. I guess I just have to try this first ! Thanks ! TimT. Wonderful ! Full speed internet access, from the back of the garden! I can happily confirm that the software metioned above works on my Acer Aspire 5024WLMI. Currently using a gcc 3.3 compiled 2.6.12-5 kernel, no patches, ndiswrapper 1.3.rc1 , with the 64 bit (windows) driver from the acer site TimT.
Re: Acer 5024WLMI and wireless
On 8/25/05, Tim T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,I recently bought an AMD64 Turion based ACER WLMi which alsofeatures a broadcom 4318,which is turned on by a switch on the front of the laptop.It looksas though this switch needssomesort of software to turn on the radio. I haven't found any information on how make thiswork. (looks as though ndiwrapper does support the chipsetotherwise, which is somewhat frustrating.)Since I need wireless to work, I've decided to get a PCMCIA based card for now. What would be agood card to get, given that I want to run an AMD64 based system ?Which card/vendor has64 bit drivers ?(Or does anybody have any idea on how to turn on the radio ?) Following up on my own post: I found this: acerhk (http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~tauber/acerhk/) Unfortunately, development has stopped. I'd be willing to take a shot at it, but there's some assembler in there, for a 32 bit processor that I'm not familiar with... Anybody here fluent in this ? Failing that,I stumbled across a good price on a prism54 based card, the smc2835w. Anybody got any experience with this ? TimT. Thanks in advance for any help, TimT.
Re: Acer 5024WLMI and wireless
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 09:17:34PM +0200, Tim T. wrote: Following up on my own post: I found this: acerhk (http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~tauber/acerhk/) Unfortunately, development has stopped. I'd be willing to take a shot at it, but there's some assembler in there, for a 32 bit processor that I'm not familiar with... Anybody here fluent in this ? Failing that,I stumbled across a good price on a prism54 based card, the smc2835w. Anybody got any experience with this ? I have seen people say they had good luck with ralink 2500 based wireless since it has GPL'd drivers with complete sources. A list of cards using those chips can be found here (pay careful attension to revisions since some stupid companies change chipsets with just a revision change, and a model that you thought was one thing is now another): http://ralink.rapla.net/ Even prism based cards are often softmac now and hence not supported by the prism driver that works with hardmac chips. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Acer 5024WLMI and wireless
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 12:20 pm, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 09:17:34PM +0200, Tim T. wrote: Following up on my own post: I found this: acerhk (http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~tauber/acerhk/) Unfortunately, development has stopped. I'd be willing to take a shot at it, but there's some assembler in there, for a 32 bit processor that I'm not familiar with... Anybody here fluent in this ? Failing that,I stumbled across a good price on a prism54 based card, the smc2835w. Anybody got any experience with this ? I have seen people say they had good luck with ralink 2500 based wireless since it has GPL'd drivers with complete sources. A list of cards using those chips can be found here (pay careful attension to revisions since some stupid companies change chipsets with just a revision change, and a model that you thought was one thing is now another): http://ralink.rapla.net/ Even prism based cards are often softmac now and hence not supported by the prism driver that works with hardmac chips. Len Sorensen I will add a first-person good experience with RALink chipsets. I personally have a rt2570 (USB version) and am quite pleased with it. At the much more active development site http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com they have updated drivers from the RALink release. One caveat however, is that there have been reports in the forums about PPC64 support. I gleaned the impression that most of the issues were endianness based, but I have only used the driver on x86. Joel Johnson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Acer 5024WLMI and wireless
On 8/30/05, Tim T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following up on my own post: I found this: acerhk (http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~tauber/acerhk/) Unfortunately, development has stopped. I'd be willing to take a shot at it, but there's some assembler in there, for a 32 bit processor that I'm not familiar with... Anybody here fluent in this ? Give a look here: http://www.archernar.co.uk/acer_acpi/acer_acpi_main.html Thanks to Mark's work the wireless card in my Aspire 5024 is now working.
Re: Acer 5024WLMI and wireless
On 8/30/05, Michelasso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/30/05, Tim T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following up on my own post: I found this: acerhk (http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~tauber/acerhk/) Unfortunately, development has stopped. I'd be willing to take a shot at it, but there's some assembler in there, for a 32 bit processor that I'm not familiar with... Anybody here fluent in this ? Give a look here: http://www.archernar.co.uk/acer_acpi/acer_acpi_main.html Thanks to Mark's work the wireless card in my Aspire 5024 is now working. That's thrown my plans for the day.. I was going to go home early, to buy a new network card.. I guess I just have to try this first ! Thanks ! TimT.
Re: Acer 5024WLMI and wireless
Hi, I don't know about PCMCIA wireless cards, but I do have a USB adapter that I use with a laptop. It's a Belkin DWL-122. I set it up earlier this month, with a little help from this forum, and the thread should be here somewhere. Here are two web pages that might help. The first tells how to set up the card in general, by Julian Coccia, and the second includes some of my comments about doing it on a 64-bit stock kernel by compiling the drivers against kernel sources. You don't have to recompile the kernel (as the first web page tells you to) to get the card working, as people on this forum pointed out to me. The nice thing about the USB card is that I can use it on both my laptop and desktop. Good luck. http://julian.coccia.com/blog/index.php?p=53more=1 http://julian.coccia.com/blog/index.php Bob B. On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 13:02 +0200, Tim T. wrote: Hi, I recently bought an AMD64 Turion based ACER WLMi which also features a broadcom 4318, which is turned on by a switch on the front of the laptop. It looks as though this switch needs some sort of software to turn on the radio. I haven't found any information on how make this work. (looks as though ndiwrapper does support the chipset otherwise, which is somewhat frustrating.) Since I need wireless to work, I've decided to get a PCMCIA based card for now. What would be a good card to get, given that I want to run an AMD64 based system ? Which card/vendor has 64 bit drivers ? (Or does anybody have any idea on how to turn on the radio ?) Thanks in advance for any help, TimT. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Acer 5024WLMI and wireless
For once, I can actually respond with some [hopefully] useful info! I have a Compaq V2311 with an internal Broadcom 4318 (rev 02) that I got working just last night. This laptop is also Turion-based. I'm not using the laptop at the moment, so if direct links are needed I can follow up when I can turn it on and review, but here it is in a nutshell from memory: Running debian pure unstable, kernel 2.6.12 (debian packaged)-- I didn't try other kernels, YMMV You'll need at least the kernel headers, or kernel source that has been configured so that the version.h file is built (go with the headers package) Grab the ndiswrapper sources from sourceforge (v 1.3rc2 is it? The latest tarball) Use the Acer 64-bit Broadcom driver (not the generic 64-bit one from linuxant) ndiswrapper: extract the archive contents. inside the ndiswrapper source directory is a debian directory, but the control files are for i386 cd debian ; perl -p -i -e 's|i386|amd64|g' control* ; cd .. At the top of the ndiswrapper source dir, make ; make deb The resulting ndiswrapper and ndiswrapper-utils debi packages can be installed with dpkg. They should end up at the same level as the ndiswrapper source directory. If all goes well and you install the resulting .deb packages, you'll have /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper and /lib/modules/kernel-version/misc/ndiswrapper.ko ready to go. Acer driver: The archive I located had these files in it BCMWL564.SYS Version.txt bcm43xx.cat bcmwl5.inf (again, I'll have to follow up if you need more info... like where I found the Acer files that I'm actually using. I happened to have copied the .rar file they were in onto this machine I'm using now to unrar them... I have the files here if needed) That Version.txt file contains TITLE AMBIT G (Broadcom solution) Wireless LAN driver (T60H906.00) for XP-64BIT -WW- PRODUCT DATA VERSION : v3.100.64.0 BUILD ID : FBWG01WWd This one works, a later one may as well. YMMV when you have these files, as root ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf (include the path to that .inf file if appropriate) this installs the driver in /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/ You'll see a couple of lines about some parameters being changed... I believe these are parameters in the config files (keep reading), I didn't have to touch any of this stuff. In that directory you'll see a config file with the pci device id like 14E4:4318.5.conf As long as that's there, you're in good shape (hopefully I got those first 4 digits correct... I think that's right). ndiswrapper -l (that's a lower-case L) will list the driver and hardware, you should see a message that the bcmwl5 driver is installed and hardware is found If that's the case, modprobe ndiswrapper.ko In my case, a nice light came on as soon as the module loaded, and from there it was a matter of iwconfig'ing the essid and key values for my wireless net setup. Worked great from there on out. I did try the linuxant generic driver, but that is set up for the 4320 part, which is a rev 03 device... nothing but a couple of error messages when I tried to load the ndiswrapper module, and that's after I tried playing around with the settings and the name of the config files (the config flie name is important... I changed one of the 4320.5.conf files to 4318.5.conf) but that went nowhere. The Acer driver worked instantly Hope that helps. Having the correct driver files was essential, building deb packages for ndiswrapper was a piece of cake. Good luck -dh On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 13:02 +0200, Tim T. wrote: Hi, I recently bought an AMD64 Turion based ACER WLMi which also features a broadcom 4318, which is turned on by a switch on the front of the laptop. It looks as though this switch needs some sort of software to turn on the radio. I haven't found any information on how make this work. (looks as though ndiwrapper does support the chipset otherwise, which is somewhat frustrating.) Since I need wireless to work, I've decided to get a PCMCIA based card for now. What would be a good card to get, given that I want to run an AMD64 based system ? Which card/vendor has 64 bit drivers ? (Or does anybody have any idea on how to turn on the radio ?) Thanks in advance for any help, TimT.
