[SlugBug] wireless 802.11 PCI cards

Bruno Postle bruno at postle.net
Wed May 18 20:22:45 BST 2005


On Wed 18-May-2005 at 12:56 +0100, Bruno Postle wrote:

> I guessed and bought a "PCI Netgear WG311 v2"

> It turned-out to have a Texas Instruments acx111 chipset which is 
> apparently supported by this kernel module:
> 
>  http://acx100.sourceforge.net/
> 
> It compiles, installs and loads fine, though I still have to figure 
> out how to actually set it up (and stop it from killing the mouse).

That was a clue, it had an IRQ conflict with the USB controller.

After disabling the onboard lan and letting the system reshuffle the
IRQs, I'm now connected using the default start_net script - Almost
painless.

-- 
Bruno


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