[ltp] GPL driver for Cisco 350 MiniPCI WiFi card

Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:34:38 +0000

As previously stated, its the firmware on the card. 

My 2.4.18 driver works fine with the older firmware. 

The same card fails with newer cisco firmware. 

G.

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 15:05:35 -0700
Vipul Ved Prakash <thinkpad@vipul.net> wrote:

> Alexis, 
> 
> Thanks for the HOWTO. I compiled in the airo_mpi driver into 2.4.21. As I
> wrote to the list a few days ago, the Cisco driver would just reboot my
> machine. The GPL driver works better but still can't enable MAC. I dug
> around a bit in the sources... enable_MAC() fails with the response in the
> logs below. Does this provide a hint as to what might be going on?
> 
> airo_mpi:  Probing for PCI adapters
> PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:02.0
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.2
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.1
> init_airo_card: resetting card
> airo_mpi: issuecommand_nolock: cmd= 1
> airo_mpi: issuecommand_nolock: status= 7f01
> airo_mpi: issuecommand_nolock: Rsp0= 8c
> airo_mpi: issuecommand_nolock: Rsp1= ff11
> airo_mpi: issuecommand_nolock: Rsp2= 22
> airo_mpi: Bad MAC enable reason = 8c, rid = ff11, offset = 34
> airo_mpi: MAC could not be enabled
> init_airo_card returns 00000000
> airo_mpi:  Finished probing for PCI adapters
> 
> cheers,
> vipul
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 11:55:38AM +0200, Alexis de Lattre wrote:
> > 
> > This is a small HOWTO for the new GPL driver for the Cisco 350 MiniPCI
> > WiFi card, that can be found inside some Thinkpad T30 and other
> > Thinkpads. I use it for one week now: it's much more convenient that
> > the driver provided by Cisco because it has the wireless extensions. A
> > big "thanks" to Benjamin Reed and Fabrice Bellet for their work on this
> > driver.
> > 
> > 
> > ---------- GPL driver for Cisco 350 MiniPCI WiFi card HOWTO ------------
> > 
> > Benjamin Reed is developing a driver for this card at
> > airo-linux.sourceforge.net. Fabrice Bellet has improved the driver, but
> > his modifications have not been integrated yet. I will explain here how
> > to install the driver modified by Fabrice Bellet. I suppose you have the
> > sources of a 2.4.21 kernel in /usr/src/linux/.
> > 
> > * Get the file airo_mpi.c-20030719 from Fabrice's "Linux on T40" page
> >  http://bellet.info/~bellet/laptop/t40.html#wireless
> >  and copy it to /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/wireless/airo_mpi.c
> > 
> > * Get the file airo.h on http://www.via.ecp.fr/~alexis/t30/airo.h
> >   and copy it to the directory
> >   /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/wireless/ (you can also get it from the
> >   CVS of the airo-linux projet as explained on
> >   http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=24926).
> > 
> > * Modify the file /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/wireless/Makefile: add
> >   "airo_mpi.o" at the end of the line which starts with "export-objs" and
> >   add a line containing "obj-m += airo_mpi.o" before the last line.
> > 
> >   The Makefile should now contain:
> > 
> > #
> > # drivers/net/wireless/Makefile
> > #
> > # Makefile for the Linux Wireless network device drivers.
> > #
> > 
> > O_TARGET := wireless_net.o
> > 
> > obj-y           :=
> > obj-m           :=
> > obj-n           :=
> > obj-            :=
> > 
> > # Things that need to export symbols
> > export-objs     := airo.o orinoco.o hermes.o airo_mpi.o
> > 
> > obj-$(CONFIG_HERMES)            += orinoco.o hermes.o
> > obj-$(CONFIG_PCMCIA_HERMES)     += orinoco_cs.o
> > obj-$(CONFIG_APPLE_AIRPORT)     += airport.o
> > obj-$(CONFIG_PLX_HERMES)        += orinoco_plx.o
> > obj-$(CONFIG_PCI_HERMES)        += orinoco_pci.o
> > 
> > obj-$(CONFIG_AIRO)              += airo.o
> > obj-$(CONFIG_AIRO_CS)           += airo_cs.o airo.o
> > obj-m += airo_mpi.o
> > 
> > include $(TOPDIR)/Rules.make
> > 
> > 
> > * Then recompile your kernel with no specific option. Eventually,
> >   install your new kernel and reboot.
> > 
> > 
> > To get the wireless interface, load the module "airo_mpi". This is what
> > you should see in /var/log/syslog when you do that:
> > 
> > Jul 28 21:29:29 alpy kernel: airo_mpi:  Probing for PCI adapters
> > Jul 28 21:29:29 alpy kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:02.0
> > Jul 28 21:29:29 alpy kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.2
> > Jul 28 21:29:29 alpy kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.1
> > Jul 28 21:29:29 alpy kernel: init_airo_card: resetting card
> > Jul 28 21:29:31 alpy kernel: airo_mpi: MAC enabled eth0 0:d0:59:c9:22:6
> > Jul 28 21:29:31 alpy kernel: init_airo_card returns c98f0000
> > Jul 28 21:29:31 alpy kernel: airo_mpi:  Finished probing for PCI adapters
> > Jul 28 21:29:36 alpy kernel: airo_interrupt: MIC interrupt
> > Jul 28 21:29:36 alpy kernel: airo_interrupt: Link stat int ls=400
> > Jul 28 21:29:36 alpy kernel: airo_mpi: airo_interrupt: Carrier on
> > 
> > 
> > Then you can use the programs packaged in the wireless-tools (iwconfig,
> > iwevent, iwlist, iwpriv and iwspy). For example, to search wireless
> > networks do:
> > 
> > iwlist eth0 scan
> > 
> > To connect to a network do:
> > 
> > iwconfig eth0 essid network_name
> > 
> > 
> > When I use iwconfig or other wireless-tools, I have the following
> > message:
> > 
> > Warning: Driver for device eth0 has been compiled with version 15
> > of Wireless Extension, while this program is using version 16.
> > Some things may be broken...
> > 
> > but it doesn't seem to be a problem.
> > 
> > When the driver stops working, just remove and load the module again (in
> > particular, I have to do that after each suspend/resume).
> > 
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > You can find this small HOWTO along with other tips about my T30
> > 2366-85G under Linux on this modest and "not-finished-yet" page:
> > 
> > http://www.via.ecp.fr/~alexis/t30/
> > 
> > I hope it will be usefull to some people on this mailing-list.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Alexis
> > -- 
> > The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:
> > http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad
> 
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