Re: Cisco MPI 350 wireless Apadter

["Sripathy K" <sripathy k gmail com>]

On 2/3/07, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:

On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 16:35 +0530, Sripathy K wrote:
> I was trying
>
> On 2/1/07, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
>         On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 23:34 +0530, Sripathy K wrote:
>         >
>         >
>         > On 1/31/07, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
>         >         On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 18:04 +0530, Sripathy K
>         wrote:
>         >         >
>         >         >
>         >         > On 1/30/07, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com > wrote:
>         >         >         On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 11:27 +0530,
>         Sripathy K
>         >         wrote:
>         >         >         > Hi,
>         >         >         >
>         >         >         > I recently installed FC6 on my T42. The
>         wireless
>         >         connection
>         >         >         doesnot
>         >         >         > work. The airo driver seems to be
>         present but the
>         >         >         NetworkManager fails
>         >         >         > to configure this adapter.
>         >         >         >
>         >         >         > I have done a bit of googling and found
>         a few old
>         >         threads
>         >         >         which
>         >         >         > recomend downgrading the wireless
>         adapters
>         >         firmware. Is this
>         >         >         a
>         >         >         > necessity even now?
>         >         >         >
>         >         >         > I did download from cisco website the
>         >         >         linux-acu-driver-v21.tar.gz
>         >         >         > driver, but it fails to compile on this
>         machine.
>         >         >
>         >         >         FC6 is known to work with airo cards, at
>         least with
>         >         firmware
>         >         >         from
>         >         >         5.00.02 to 5.60.08 inclusive.  It may work
>         with
>         >         later firmware
>         >         >         versions.
>         >         >         What firmware version does your card
>         have?  If you
>         >         have
>         >         >         _anything_ less
>         >         >         than 5.30.17, I would definitely recommend
>         updating
>         >         your
>         >         >         firmware.
>         >         >
>         >         >         cat /proc/driver/aironet/eth0 /Status
>         >         >
>         >         > The aironet directory in my systems is empty. Am i
>         missing
>         >         something
>         >         > here?
>         >         > On Windows the firmware version is 5.60.21
>         >
>         >
>         >         If you run '/sbin/lsmod | grep airo', what do you
>         get?
>         >
>         >         $$sripathy$$:
>         >
>         > The card is listed through that command. Its not used by any
>         one though.
>
>         So do you get something like this or not?
>
>         [dcbw localhost]$ /sbin/lsmod | grep airo
>         airo_cs                10561  1
>         airo                   76513  1 airo_cs
>
>         If you just have 'airo', that's fine too.
>
>         >         I did an update from yum to kernel version 2.6.19.x.
>         I see
>         >         that there is a eth1 directory in
>         "/proc/driver/aironet". The
>         >         firmware version from the "Status" is 5.60.21.
>
>         > I have a Cisco 350 series wireless LAN  Adapter. Does airo
>         driver work
>         > with this card? I saw a few mpi350 specific drivers. Do we
>         need to use
>         > them.
>
>         Yes, the airo driver will work for this card.  The mpi350
>         specific
>         drivers are really, really, really old and will not work for
>         you.  The
>         only driver you should be using is the 'airo' driver included
>         in the
>         linux kernel by default.
>
>         So when you say that NetworkManager "fails to configure" the
>         card, what
>         exactly do you mean?  What are you trying to do that is not
>         working for
>         you?
>
> Sorry for getting back late on this. I was out from email access.
> There are two scenarios which i have listed, both are from different
> locations (different wireless AP's).
>
> Case 1:
> I have a WEP enabled wireless router which requies a security
> key. I am using the system-config-network GUI tool to enable the
> wireless card on my laptop. If i dont use a
> WEP, on the wireless device, the current airo driver works fine.
>
> Case 2:
> However if i enable WEP on the wireless device(router), the
> system-config-network GUI, is not able to determine the IP address.
>
> Let me know if you are looking for any specific information which will
> help me get this working.

Aha :) You probably want to take this to Fedora-specific lists; you're
using system-config-network on Fedora, not NetworkManager.  This list is
specific to the NetworkManager tool, which isn't what you're using.

Try:

http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Ok. I will try that.
Meanwhile, Is there any way i can do it from NetworkManager. Any link which I could use?

Thanks,
Sripathy
 

Cheers,
Dan

> Thanks for your help.
> Sripathy
>
>
>
>         Dan
>
>         > Thank for your help with this.
>         > Sripathy
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         >         > Thanks,
>         >         > Sripathy
>         >         >
>         >         >
>         >         >         firmware version is in the output of that
>         command,
>         >         in the
>         >         >         "Firmware
>         >         >         Version" field.
>         >         >
>         >         >         Dan
>         >         >
>         >         >         > Any ideas on how to get this working?
>         >         >         >
>         >         >         > Thanks for your help.
>         >         >         > Sripathy
>         >         >         >
>         >         >         > PS: I could not find anything from
>         the  archives
>         >         of this
>         >         >         mailing
>         >         >         > list.
>         >         >         >
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