[NTLUG:Discuss] success story

[Leroy Tennison]

Terry wrote:

>On 12/1/05, Charles Cashion <papacharles at dunjas.com> wrote:
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>>I have a long term goal of using Linux exclusively.
>>My needs are not that great...surfing, email, news (NNTP),
>>study of linux, etc.
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>>But a few small things have been holding me back.  For
>>one thing, my Linux cannot print to my Canon i550.  For
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>Before buying your next printer, check at http://www.linuxprinting.org first.
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>For info about Canon printers, see
>http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make=Canon
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>>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.
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>>         SHORT STORY
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>>My son said that Fedora Core 4 (FC4) would support my
>>wireless adapter
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>>    "right out of the box".
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>>But fortunately, he also has experience compiling and
>>loading driver modules. My pcmcia wireless adapter will
>>now talk to my wireless router.
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>>         LONG STORY
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>>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.
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>>         #lspci -n  ->  104c:9066
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>4. I downloaded and burned 4 CDROMS of FC4 and 1 CDROM
>>     for the rescue disk. (anybody wanna borrow them?)
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>>5. FC4 was loaded onto the laptop. (This took less
>>     than two hours).
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>>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.
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>>     By the way...I had previously heard of "yum",
>>     but this was my first real exposure.
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>>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.
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>>                 IT IS ALIVE !!!
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>>Thank you for letting me share the joy.
>>--
>>Charles
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>>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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Where do you check before buying your next motherboard.  I got bit with 
a VIA video chipset for which there is, at best, a beta driver.