[NTLUG:Discuss] success story

[Bruce DeGrasse]

On Thursday 01 December 2005 02:31 pm, Charles Cashion wrote:
> I have a long term goal of using Linux exclusively.
> My needs are not that great...surfing, email, news (NNTP),
> study of linux, etc.
>
> But a few small things have been holding me back.  For
> one thing, my Linux cannot print to my Canon i550.  For
> another, my wireless link would not talk to my wireless
> router.  On Thanksgiving day, I had something for which
> I am thankful.  One of the problems was solved.  My
> wireless pcmcia adapter will now talk to my wireless
> router.
>
>          SHORT STORY
>
> My son said that Fedora Core 4 (FC4) would support my
> wireless adapter
>
>     "right out of the box".
>
> But fortunately, he also has experience compiling and
> loading driver modules. My pcmcia wireless adapter will
> now talk to my wireless router.
>
>          LONG STORY
>
> 1. In the beginning, before I asked for help, lspci -n
>      indicated that my wireless adapter is an Airlink+
>      AWLC3025 and it has a Texas Instruments ACX111
>      chipset.
>
>          #lspci -n  ->  104c:9066
>
> 2. I already had FC3 on my laptop, so what I initially
>      wanted to do was just add the driver for the
>      pcmcia wireless adapter.  I did a search of the
>      internet and located a driver.
>
> 3.  I asked my son for assistance in building that
>      driver.  My son said to forget that driver, FC4
>      will talk to my wireless adapter "right out of the
>      box" so lets just load FC4.
>
> 4. I downloaded and burned 4 CDROMS of FC4 and 1 CDROM
>      for the rescue disk. (anybody wanna borrow them?)
>
> 5. FC4 was loaded onto the laptop. (This took less
>      than two hours).
>
> 6. My son then showed me how to run "yum update". We
>      then departed to a friends house and celebrated the
>      Thanksgiving meal. When we returned, yum was done.
>
>      By the way...I had previously heard of "yum",
>      but this was my first real exposure.
>
> 7. Then my son changed his mind about the online
>      driver. FC4 does NOT talk to an AWLC3025
>        "right out of the box".
>      So he downloaded and unpacked and compiled and
>      installed a driver.
>        http://www.houseofcraig.net/acx100_howto.php
>        acx100-0.2.0pre8_plus_fixes_51.tar.bz2
>       (that web site AND the driver version has
>         changed since we used it)
>      We installed it, and it was still mute. Then
>      we downloaded the supporting script and ran it.
>
>                  IT IS ALIVE !!!
>
> Thank you for letting me share the joy.
> --
> Charles
>
> PS Now if I can just get either of my Linux boxes to
> talk to my Canon i550.  Kevin (email dated 11/25) has
> already found a driver for a i560, and suggested that
> something similar might exist for the i550.
>
>
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Charles, congrats on getting wireless to work.  I have a Cannon IP3000 and 
having trouble to get it to work, so let me know what kind of success you 
have with your i550.  My IP3000 is on an XP and I access it through Samba, 
for most setups I use CUPS and it prints pages about 5x7 instead of letter 
size.  In most setups it times out at 10 min between pages.  Not particularly 
a good thing.  My Epson does work so I am not dead in the water.

Good luck.

Bruce