[olug] Cisco Aironet 340 Wireless card

[neal rauhauser]

 What is neat? I'm not on redhat and haven't been for a long time.

  I had some troubles with my aironet card under Knoppix - a manual
install of the module with some command line parameters (SSID?) seemed
to help, but it was not intuitive - things I fully expect ifconfig to
handle based on BSD's behavior required this module loading/unloading
business ...



Scott Evans wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> This will be a rather long post sorry!!  I am having
> problems with getting my new Cisco Aironet 340
> Wireless 802.11b PCMCIA card to work under Red Hat 8.0
> with the 2.4.18.14 kernel on a Dell Inspiron 8100
> Laptop.
> 
> First off here is the output of the command "cat
> /var/log/messages"
> 
> Jun 23 06:44:19 localhost cardmgr [502]:executing:
> './network stop eth0'
> Jun 23 06:44:19 localhost cardmgr [502]:executing:
> 'modprob -r airo_cs'
> Jun 23 06:44:21 localhost /etc/hotplug/net.agent' NET
> unregister event not supported
> Jun 23 06:44:24 localhost cardmgr [502]: Socket
> 1:Aironet PC4800
> Jun 23:06:44:25 localhost cardmgr [502]:
> executing:'mobprob airo_cs'
> Jun 23:06:44:30 localhost kernel:airo: Probing for PCI
> adapters
> Jun 23:06:44:32 localhost kernel:airo: Finished
> probing for PCI adapters
> Jun 23:06:44:34 localhost kernel:airo: MAC enabled
> eth0 0:40:96:39:44:f
> Jun 23:06:44:35 localhost kernel:eth0:index 0x05:Vcc
> 5.0,Vpp 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f
> Jun 23:06:44:36 localhost cardmgr [502]: executing:
> './network start eth0'
> Jun 23:06:44:40 localhost
> /etc/hotplug/net.agent:invoke ifup eth0
> 
> Here is the output of the command 'cat
> /proc/driver/aironet/eth0/Status
> 
> Status: CFG ACT
> Mode: f
> Signal Strength: 0
> Signal Quality: 3
> SSID: WLAN
> AP:
> Freq: 0
> BitRate: 11mbs
> Driver Version: airo.c 0.3 (Ben Reed & Javier
> Achirica)
> Device: 340 Series
> Manufacturer: Cisco Systems
> Firmware Version: 3.93
> Radio Type: 2
> Country: 0
> Hardware Version: 20
> Software Version: 393
> Software Subversion: 0
> Boot Block version: 143
> 
> Ok, now that that is out of the way, I then issue the
> command "neat" in a term window as root. When the
> window pops up I get this warning error
> 
> "eth0 has an alias to module airo_cs in modules.conf,
> instead of currently loaded module airo!"
> 
> after clicking on "ok" I then click on "activate" to
> activate the device.  After clicking on "activate" I
> get this little error in my term window,
> 
> "Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06):
> SET failed on device eth0; Invalid argument"
> 
> Then a message comes on the term window and says
> pretty much that it pinged the gateway (192.168.1.1)
> and all packets where lost.
> 
> Also when I do the commond "/sbin/ifconfig -a" I can
> see that its doing something it shows that RX
> packets:0 errors:563 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:563
> and that TX packets:24 errors:24 dropped:0 overrun:0
> carrier:22
> 
> I dont know what else to do.  Your help is greatly
> appreciated and thank you for your time!
> 
> Scott Evans
> 
> 
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