Re: Cisco MPI 350 wireless Apadter

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

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?

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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