US Robotics 2210 on Xubuntu · Apr 2, 08:56 PM by Dylan Doxey
There has been a success in the area of installing Xubuntu on my laptop.
I used the “Alternate” distribution and took advantage of the text based installer which apparently does not have the BusyBox terminal problem.
However, My Sony Vaio SR-33K is an odd ball among computers in the sense that you cannot have the wireless card in at the same time as the CD ROM.
They both require the use of the PCMCIA port.
That leaves me needing to configure my USR 2210 wifi card manually.
Executing lspci reveals that my USR 2210 is based on the Texas Instruments ACX 100 wireless chipset.
The driver for ACX100 does not come “out of the box” with Xubuntu, Consequently, the PCMCIA network card is of no extra consequence.
Well, here’s a nice tutorial on setting up the driver:
http://www.disi.unige.it/SEALab/Krakatoa/devevey/USR2210.html
Here’s where you download the driver source code:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=75380
Here’s the driver author’s wiki:
http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/ACX
You’ll need to download the firmware also:
http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/Firmware
I’d like to share exactly what I did in exactly the sequence which I did it.
However, I read the above tutorials, and followed the procedures with a little of my own trial and error thrown in for good measure.
Therefore, I’m not going to be so bold as to offer you a step by step tutorial. Let’s just call this a guideline.
This is (about) what I did:
- Download: acx-mac80211-vlynq-20071006.tar.bz2 (from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=75380)
- Extract the directory: acx-mac80211-vlynq-20071006
- Read the content of the file named README: because things are usually not exactly what you expect.
- Create the directory: /usr/src/linux-headers-`uname -r | sed ‘s/\-generic//’`/drivers/net/wireless/acx
- Copy the source code to your new acx/ directory. (Note: For kernels 2.6.x, moving the source code into the kernel source tree is optional.)
- Compile the source code: make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd`
- Download: acx-firmware-20060207.tar.bz2 ( from http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/Firmware )
- Copy the applicable firmware from fw/acx100_1.10.7.K/ to either /lib/firmware or /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware, depending on your Linux distribution.
- Verify the network configuration: /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid oinker
wireless-channel 10
wireless-key 1234567890ABCDEF1234567890A- Restart networking: /etc/init.d/networking restart
- Verify your card is recognized: iwconfig
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