loopback » Archive » Quick guide to get DWL-650+ working under Slackware 10.2

Get a fresh acx100 tarball from here http://acx100.sourceforge.net/download.html
Create a working directory wherever you want. Let’s say /tmp/acx
cd to it
```
tar xjf acx-version.tar.bz2
```
(Attention ! This may changes permissions on current directory. Safer to do this in a separated directory as specified above…)

run

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

then as root:

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

Go get the appropriate firmware files from here:http://acx100.sourceforge.net/download.html.
In our case, we have to pick up RADIO11.BIN and WLANGEN.BIN.
Copy those two files to /lib/firmware
Rename RADIO11.BIN and WLANGEN.BIN to tiacx100r11 and tiacx100 respectively
Insert insmod acx.ko module to kernel to see if it’s actually working:
```
insmod acx.ko
```
lsmod |grep acx should confirm about that
At this point, if your card is inserted and if you have followed those steps correctly, you’re supposed to be able to perform:
```
ifconfig wlan0 up
```
If this fails and reports something like
```
wlan0: unknown interface: No such device
```
then double check to see if acx.ko is loaded.