[ltp] My Cisco wireless issue

[Dimitris Kogias]

Joe,

There was a small thread here about a month ago re: differences between
the airo driver (bundled with the kernel) and Fabrice's airo_mpi driver 
which was merged into airo.  IIRC airo_mpi doesn't have the problem with 
multiple APs present whereas airo does.  Which one are you running?

FWIW I've used both drivers in an environment where multiple APs are in
range in addition to the one I want to connect with.  The airo driver
could not hold the association for more than a few seconds unless my AP
was broadcasting beacons.  Once I configured my AP to send beacons it's
worked without any problems.

My firmware version is 5b.00.08.

Dimitris.

Morris, Joseph C wrote:
> Indeed, I double checked and it is running 5.00.03, but thanks for 
> the response!
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: 
> linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org on behalf of Greg Meyer Sent:
>  Sun 3/21/2004 7:45 PM To:	linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org Cc: 
> Subject:	Re: [ltp] My Cisco wireless issue
> 
> On Sunday 21 March 2004 07:29 pm, Morris, Joseph C wrote:
> 
>> Hi everybody! I'm new to this list, and I'm a new owner of an R40.
>>  Everything from power management to the finest details work 
>> beautifully, except wireless. I ordered this laptop with a Cisco 
>> wireless card (mini-pci). I've wrestled with this thing quite a 
>> bit, and my ability to connect to my university's wireless network 
>> is touchy.  Sometimes, I can get a connection, sometimes dhcpcd 
>> just hangs for a while and connects, and sometimes it just doesn't 
>> get a connection at all.  Under Windows things work beautifully 
>> every time.  I noticed that when I'm in places where there are 
>> multiple access points (such as this school), that is has trouble 
>> connecting to any one of them despite specifying an essid. In areas
>>  where there is only one access point, things connect nicely. 
>> Sometimes putting the system into suspend and reinserting the airo 
>> module makes the thing work beautifully.  Anybody have any 
>> suggestions? I'm running kernel 2.6.4, but i've tried a variety of 
>> 2.6 kernels.  Thanks!
>> 
>> Joe
> 
> Sounds to me like your cards firmware has been updated in Windows. 
> You need to be running the 5.00.03 firmware on the card to make it 
> work with the airo kernel module.