[ltp] Aironet Wireless on T40

[Joel Ebel]

Look on this page:

http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/aironet_driv_utils_win_exp_350mpi

Versions 2 and 2.1 come with the 5.00.03 firmware.  If you use those in 
windows XP without problems, let me know.  I always got frequent blue 
screens.  Save often!

The driverloader can be found here:

http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/

and ndiswrapper is here:

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

if you want to try those out.

Joel

Siraj Patel wrote:

> 
> 
> 
>> From: Greg Meyer <mdklists@gkmweb.com>
>> Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
>> To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
>> Subject: Re: [ltp] Aironet Wireless on T40
>> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 07:53:17 -0500
>>
>> 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.
> 
> 
> How do I find out which windows driver comes with 5.00.03, I'm using the 
> latest at the moment, 6.3?
> 
>>
>> If you need to have some of the advanced features of the Windows 
>> driver which
>> requires the later firmware,
> 
> 
> I would prefer to keep the 5.40.10 firmware and 6.3 Windows driver.
> 
>> you might be better off trying to use the XP
>> driver with ndiswrapper or the driverloader instead of using the 
>> native airo
>> module.
>>
> How do I do this?
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> I have got this and have compiled it. But I still get the following 
> message:
> 'Cannot get driver information: Operation not supported
> Determining IP information for eth1 ... failed'
> 
> Cheers,
> Siraj
> 
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