[ltp] Cisco Aironet 350 Mini PCI on an R40 running SuSE 9

[Dimitris Kogias]

Mike,

ACU works with Cisco's mpi350 driver whereas iwconfig works only with 
Fabrice's airo_mpi driver.  From your message it seems you mixed the two 
config utilities, but which driver was loaded at the time?

BTW, ACU seemed a little buggy to me, in the sense that the UI sometimes 
got in funky states, like for example not letting me enable WEP in 
ad-hoc mode.  It does work though, you just may need to exit and restart 
it (that's what I did).  Once your /etc/ethX.cfg file has captured the 
configuration you want you'll probably not need to see it again :)

Having said that, now that airo_mpi supports adhoc it would be my first 
choice and I'll be trying it soon.

FWIW this is all with the MPI350 module in a X31 (2672) running Debian 
woody and 2.4.23.

D.

Mike Evans wrote:
> Mike Evans wrote:
> 
>> Aha!  Success!  Thanks for the tip everyone.
>>
>> Mike Evans wrote:
>>
> I guess I spoke too soon.  I was testing at work, where we don't have an 
> access point.  I was delighted to see my wireless' LED's light up.
> 
> Upon getting home, I booted back into SuSE, only to discover that for 
> some reason the driver wouldn't load with 'modprobe airo_mpi'... I un 
> tar'ed it again and re-compiled and installed it and got the LED to 
> light up again.
> 
> I used 'iwconfig' to manually set all of my wlan settings.  iwconfig 
> showed that the card had found my router and was reporting that I had 
> around 55/100 signal strength.  But, still no internet connection.
> 
> As I thought the GUI would be easier, I brought up Cisco's acu utility 
> and made a few changes.  Suddenly, the signal strength dropped, and 
> subsequent tries to reconfigure with acu failed.
> 
> My next step was to use ifconfig (and later I manually created an 
> itcfg-eth1 in /etc/sysconfig/network) to try to get things working.  It 
> worked pretty well, but every time I run iwconfig, it shows the (wrong) 
> settings I made in 'acu'.
> 
> Any ideas on how to fix this without (yet) another fresh install?
> 
> Anyone care to walk me through setting up a wireless connection 
> step-by-step?
> 
> Thanks a bunch.
> 
>>> Great!  I'll try it right now and report back.
>>>
>>> Rich Smrcina wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've been using Fabrice's driver for a couple of months (on RHL9) 
>>>> and it
>>>> works just wonderfully!
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 15:44, Joel Ebel wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>> If it is a miniPCI card, you need mpi350, not airo.  You might also 
>>>>> consider trying fabrice's driver.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://bellet.info/~bellet/laptop/airo_mpi.HOWTO.txt
>>>>>
>>>>> Joel
>>>>>
>>>>> Mike Evans wrote:
>>>>>  
>>>>>
>>>>>> Wow, this is really frustrating me.  I bought an Aironet 350 
>>>>>> specifically because Cisco provides Linux drivers for the card.  
>>>>>> I've tried installing them by the provided script, which 
>>>>>> successfully compiles the drivers and utilities.  According to the 
>>>>>> instructions I'm then supposed to run 'insmod airo' which seems to 
>>>>>> work fine.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But, when I run the config utility provided by Cisco it reports 
>>>>>> 'No Radio Found'  Has anyone successfully got this card running?  
>>>>>> Can anyone help?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>     
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>
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