[ltp] Cisco aironet 2.6.5

[Greg Meyer]

On Monday 05 April 2004 09:52 pm, sfg@eurekait.com wrote:
> I've been trying for a while now to get this mpi350 working under linux.
> I've pretty much tried must links I can find to no avail.
>
> I back graded my cisco firmware to 5.00.03.

Yes this should be done.
>
> I'm thinking its the 2.6 kernel.
>
> I followed the bouncing ball to the airo_mpi site and read that it's
> change were in the airo module from 2.6.3 onwards.
>
> Mandrake 10 which is 2.6.3-4 tries and fails when using  the airo module.
>
> It looks ok but nothing works when I configure the wireless and the status
> reads that the radio is OFF.

Are you sure that the module is loaded.
>
> So I went on to 2.6.5. Compiled, make, install the kernel and still
> doesn't work with the airo driver.
>
> So I tried installing the airo_mpi driver. airo_mpi-20031220
>
> The make fails as modsetver.h is deprecated with the new modules stuff.
>
built fine on Mandrakes 2.6.3-7mdk kernel for me.

> So BBH (big black hole) as far as this card goes. Unless I try a 2.4
> kernel but 2.6 is so nice and responsive I am loath to go back. Eclipse
> runs very well on the new kernel.
>
2.6.3-7mdk works fine here with the airo_mpi.   I have gotten airo to load 
also, but I find airo_mpi to be more stable.

Are you sure you have wireless-tools installed?

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