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[jose' ventura]

Hello,
I would like to know if you can help me configure a linksys WPC54G ver. 2 
wireless internet card on a computer running SUSE 9.1. I posted my request 
on a forum and a person told me what to do but then when I tried installing 
one of the drivers with NDISWRAPPER I would get a message that said invalid 
driver, I posted that on the forum and the person replied to me and told me 
this (please note that the transcript of the Shell prompt is mine):

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Jose,

At 08:00 AM 9/16/2005, you wrote:
	 	0000:02:00.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments: Unknown device 9066
       Subsystem: Linksys: Unknown device 0033
       Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
       Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
       Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
       Region 0: Memory at 1e820000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
       Region 1: Memory at 1e800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
       Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
               Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA 
PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-)
               Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

If your card really is a Linksys WPC54G, then your cardbus bridge is not 
functioning correctly as you can see by comparing my lspci output with yours

I'm afraid that I have reached the limits of my knowledge. You should send 
the dmesg and lspci -vvv outputs to linux-pcmcia at lists.infradead.org. I 
think you might have a problem with pcmcia configuration, not with 
ndiswrapper.
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here is my output on the wireless card whenever I type the command dmesg:

eth0: no IPv6 routers present
acx100_pci: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
acx100: It looks like you were coaxed into buying a wireless network card
acx100: that uses the mysterious ACX100 chip from Texas Instruments.
acx100: You should better have bought e.g. a PRISM(R) chipset based card,
acx100: since that would mean REAL vendor Linux support.
acx100: Given this info, it's evident that this driver is quite 
EXPERIMENTAL,
acx100: thus your mileage may vary. Visit http://acx100.sf.net for support.
acx100_init_module: TI acx100_pci.o: Ver 0.2.0pre6 Loaded
acx100_init_module: dev_info is: TI acx100_pci
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
acx100_probe_pci: WARNING: ACX111 support is highly experimental!
Found ACX100-based wireless network card, phymem1:0x1e820000, 
phymem2:0x1e800000, irq:11, mem1:0xe0960000, mem1_size:8192, 
mem2:0xe0963000, mem2_size:131072 compiled with wireless extensions v16
acx100_probe_pci: using acx111 io resource adresses (size: 96)
hw_unavailable = 1
acx100_probe_pci: EEPROM card ID string check found uninitialised card ID: 
this is a SpeedStream SS1021 or Gigafast WF721-AEX, no??
reset hw_unavailable++
acx100_reset_mac: enable soft reset...
acx100_reset_mac: disable soft reset and go to init mode...
ERROR: no directory for firmware file specified, ABORTING. Make sure to set 
module parameter 'firmware_dir'! (specified as absolute path!)
acx100_reset_dev: Failed to upload firmware to the ACX111
acx100_probe_pci: TI acx100_pci: MAC initialize failure!
acx100_pci: probe of 0000:02:00.0 failed with error -5
chichenitza at rn102253:~>
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I hope you can help me fix this problem, in case I cant make this card work 
are there any Belkin cards that work right out of the box on linux? I there 
is can you please tell me which one it is ( I heard that the F5D6020 works 
out of the box) If this is the case maybe I can return my WPC54G and get 
that one.

please let me know if you need any more information from me

                                  thanks,
                                  Jose V.