[ltp] Aironet Wireless on T40

[Siraj Patel]

>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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