[ltp] Cisco Aironet wireless mini pci card w/ Mandrake 10 and linux kernel 2.6.7

[Greg Meyer]

On Friday 25 June 2004 12:44 am, Shaw Vrana wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I'm having some problems getting the aironet wireless mini pci card to work
> with the 2.6.7 kernel in my ThinkPad T30 and would appreciate a point in
> the right direction.  The airo driver is successfully loaded at boot time
> but the wifi0 interface is unable to be brought up.
>
> From /var/log/messages directly after boot:
>
> kron kernel: airo:  Probing for PCI adapters
> kron kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:02:02.0
> kron kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1d.2
> kron kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1f.1
> kron kernel: airo: MAC enabled eth1 0:2:8a:fc:f1:3f
> kron kernel: airo:  Finished probing for PCI adapters
> kron kernel: airo: BAP setup error too many retries
> kron last message repeated 7 times
> ...
> kron dhclient: wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
> kron dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wifi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> kron dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wifi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> kron dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wifi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> kron dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wifi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> kron dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
> kron zcip[1480]: libnet_open_link_interface("wifi0"): unknown physical
> layer type 0x321
> kron ifup:  failed.
> kron network: Bringing up interface wifi0:  failed
>
> (this works just fine for eth0..)
>
> From  /proc/driver/aironet/eth1/Status :
> Driver Version: airoDevice: 350 Series
> Manufacturer: Cisco Systems
> Firmware Version: 5.20.17
>
> I have been unable to change the SSID by echoing a string to SSID or
> Config..?
>
> Any information that you could provide would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> Shaw

I am using Mandrake 10.0 and have had no problem with that card using the 
driver included in kernel 2.6.7.  I have 

alias eth0 e1000
alias eth1 airo

in my modprobe.conf file and eth1 comes up without issue when I want to use 
the wireless AP.  I just use it like any other ethernet card.
-- 
/g