[ltp] Aironet Wireless on T40

[Joel Ebel]

Even using the older drivers with the older firmware in windows, I've 
had windows be unstable and crash.  I really haven't found a good 
solution for this.  I keep a PCMCIA wireless card around for times when 
my MPI350 gets too frustrating.

The MPI350 support is only in 2.6.3-rc1 and later.  It's not in 2.4.25, 
however, there is a patch available to add it to 2.5.25.

http://bellet.info/laptop/airo.c-2.4.25.diff

Hope this helps,
Joel

Greg Meyer wrote:

> 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.
> 
> If you need to have some of the advanced features of the Windows driver which 
> requires the later firmware, you might be better off trying to use the XP 
> driver with ndiswrapper or the driverloader instead of using the native airo 
> module.
> 
> 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.