[ltp] Aironet Wireless on T40

[Siraj Patel]

Right, I've tried the ndiswrapper method, everything installs smoothly. Just 
as I thought that this might actually work - get the same problem "Cannot 
get driver information: No such device Determining IP information for 
wlan0... failed.

PLEASE can anybody help me to get this to work. I couldn't set the wep 
encrytion key as its given out dynamically.

Very tired and frustrated,
Siraj


>From: Joel Ebel <jbebel@ncsu.edu>
>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 09:09:54 -0500
>
>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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