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Acx100/111 driver in Linux

This guide shows how to install manually the driver for wireless cards with Acx chipset. You need to use a kernel version >= 2.6.10.

wget http://www.cmartin.tk/acx/acx-20070101.tar.bz2
tar -xjf acx-20070101.tar.bz2
cd acx-20070101

If your kernel version is >=2.6.21:

wget http://leonardoprosperi.com/files/acx100_new_kernels.patch 
patch -Np1 -i acx100_new_kernels.patch

If you need to send raw packets:

wget http://patches.aircrack-ng.org/acx-20070101.patch
patch -Np1 -i acx-20070101.patch

Compile and install:

make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/ M=`pwd` modules
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/ M=`pwd` modules_install

Download the right firmware from: http://195.66.192.167/linux/acx_patches/fw/
Acx100 is for 11/22Mbs devices and Acx111 is for 54Mbs devices.
Place the firmware in /lib/firmware
Test it with:

modprobe acx