Haplo
Haplo wrote:
At the time I was unable
to get wifi working with familiar and I still haven't seen anyone point
out exactly how to rectify that ;), but other than that it might be of
interest to someone.
I haven't been paying too much attention to the details, but so far I
have managed to get the wifi working on every distribution I have tried
including Familiar and Debian.
Usual process for me is to modify /etc/network/interfaces to your liking
(For me the adapter comes up as wlan0 under Angstrom/Debian/Familiar and
wlan2 on Gentoo). embarrassingly I haven't quite figured out where
Gentoo hides its network configurations so I ended up writing a quick
script to configure the wireless (iwconfig essid ..... etc.) and then
dhclient wlan2 to bring it up with dhcp.
Copy the firmware to /lib/firmware (if its not already there, it is with
Angstrom and Gentoo). Point to note is that you Must keep the case the
same, the files should be:
RADIO0d.BIN
RADIO11.BIN
WLANGEN.BIN
Once they are in place you if you just modprobe both acx hx4700_acx you
should be good to go.
(that's pretty much the same process as I used for the wifi on my
partners laptop running Debian and the TV card (didnt touch
/etc/network/interfaces obviously) in my desktop as well (different
firmware in both cases of course) but its quite useful to know,
especially given how simple it is.)
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