Problems with Aironet 350 card

[Clif Smith]

Will this allow you to use LEAP?  Or do you have to use the Cisco
driver?

cjs


On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 16:27, Thomas Munck Steenholdt wrote: 

> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'd be most grateful if someone could provide help
> > with setting this up. I've tried everything and am
> > about to give up...
> >
> > I have it all configured and what seems to fail is the
> > DHCP request:
> > Dec 20 14:39:46 localhost kernel: Setting key 0
> > Dec 20 14:39:46 localhost kernel: airo:  WEP_PERM set
> > 12106
> > Dec 20 14:39:46 localhost kernel: ip_tables: (C)
> > 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
> > Dec 20 14:39:46 localhost dhclient: wifi0: unknown
> > hardware address type 801
> > Dec 20 14:39:47 localhost dhclient: wifi0: unknown
> > hardware address type 801
> > Dec 20 14:39:49 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on
> > eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
> > Dec 20 14:39:55 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on
> > eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16
> > Dec 20 14:40:11 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on
> > eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 17
> > Dec 20 14:40:28 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on
> > eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
> > Dec 20 14:40:38 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on
> > eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
> > Dec 20 14:40:48 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on
> > eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 2
> > Dec 20 14:40:50 localhost dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS
> > received.
> >
> > It works on eth0 (network card) and I do know the WiFi
> > card works fine under W2K. I have installed the Cisco
> > utilities, have used the network configuration
> > utilities, even manually editing the files and all's
> > fine! Just that it doesn't work.
> >
> > The funny thing is the card seems to be up, and even
> > the interface seems to be up:
> > [root at localhost root]# /sbin/ifconfig eth1
> > eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr
> > 00:40:96:41:C4:D0
> >           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500
> > Metric:1
> >           RX packets:0 errors:1023 dropped:0
> > overruns:0 frame:1023
> >           TX packets:12 errors:12 dropped:0 overruns:0
> > carrier:12
> >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> >           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:3960 (3.8 Kb)
> >           Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100
> >
> > But it's not.
> >
> > Any help?
> >
> 
> Looks to my like, maybe your WAP key or driver or something isn't working
> quite right! You have no packets sent without failure and you havn't
> recieved a single byte of data on the interface, only a fair amount of
> errors again!
> > RX packets:0 errors:1023 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1023
>              ^        ^^^^
> > TX packets:12 errors:12 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:12
>                        ^^
> There's a couple of things to do AFTER compiling and installing the driver!
> 
> 1. Make sure your firmware version i 5.00.01 or 5.00.03 those versions are
> the only one that will work with the linux driver... I'm using the .01 and
> never tried .03.
> 
> 2. Using the ACU utility, set your adapter up for using WAP, then set the
> wap key(will have to be entered as hex values)
> 
> 3. If you want this to work on boot you'll have to add a couple of lines
> into your /etc/modules.conf:
> Something like this should work:
> 
> alias eth1 mpi350
> post-install mpi350 /opt/cisco/bin/bcard
> 
> 4. Make sure your eth1 card is set for DHCP... (see
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1)
> 
> 5. Now ifup eth1 and it really should work!!! It does for me, and has at
> least in RH9 and FC1 (didn't have and mpi350 before RH9)
> 
> On FC1, though - I've installed the airo-mpi driver from
> http://bellet.info/~bellet/laptop/
> Check the readme here http://bellet.info/~bellet/laptop/airo_mpi.HOWTO.txt
> 
> In my oppinion, the airo-mpi is at least as good and stable as the cisco
> driver, and the handeling is linux-standard stuff... configuration goes in
> ifcfg-eth1, nothing else... no need to call bcard and stuff like that!
> very nice! But both should work!
> 
> Hope it helps!
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
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