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Ubuntu and Texas Instruments ACX 111 Chipset

If you have been running a wireless card with this chipset you might have encountered problems with it after the latest kernel upgrade; m Mom is and man did it cause me to ulcerate Sunday night as I tried to figure out what went wrong on a routine update. Thankfully, there is a fix brought to you by the quick thinking Kobalt over at Ubuntu Forums. I followed it about 90% of the way, here’s what I had to do:

$ lspci (You're looking for this: Texas Instruments ACX 111)

$ sudo ln -s -f /lib/firmware/2.6.15-26-386/acx/1.2.1.34/tiacx111c16
/lib/firmware/2.6.15-26-386/acx/default/tiacx111c16

$ sudo modprobe acx (plug in card)

$ sudo ifup wlan0

$ sudo reboot

Now, the only crappy thing to all of this is that you have to go through it again with each successive kernel update.

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3 Responses to “Ubuntu and Texas Instruments ACX 111 Chipset”

  1. Mortice says:
    September 6, 2006 at 7:29 am

    Thanks for posting this up - it’s helped at least one person I’ve spoken to in #kubuntu out.

  2. james says:
    September 6, 2006 at 11:51 am

    :-D Hopefully a more permanent fix can be found. I’m thinking of just replacing my mom’s card with one known to work with *zero* issues. I might have the patience but she doesn’t.

  3. Lennart says:
    September 7, 2006 at 7:43 am

    Thank you. Just a few steps and it worked.