[ltp] Aironet Wireless on T40

[Greg Meyer]

On Wednesday 31 March 2004 05:11 am, Siraj Patel wrote:
> To get this far I had to downgrade my firmware to 5.00.03 from 5.40.10.
> This then had repurcussions in when I was booting into xp. When using LEAP
> it authenticates me but fails to give me an IP where with the previous
> firmware it gave me an IP. I've now reverted back to firmware V5.40.10 and
> am back to square 1 in trying to get the wireless working. If it helps I
> will need to use LEAP to connect to the WLAN at work. I'm really on the
> verge of giving up, please help.

If you downgrade the firmware to 5.00.03 (which you have to do to get the 
driver to work in Linux) you also have to downgrade the Windows driver to the 
one that came with the firmware.  If you just downgraded the firmware without 
downgrading the Windows driver, you will have problems with Windows 
networking.

If you need to have some of the advanced features of the Windows driver which 
requires the later firmware, you might be better off trying to use the XP 
driver with ndiswrapper or the driverloader instead of using the native airo 
module.

BTW, what kernel version are you using?  I think kernels after 2.4.23 had the 
MPI350 built into the airo module, but prior to that you needed to get and 
compile airo_mpi.
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/g