Wireless communications.

[Sam Varshavchik]

Bill Marcum writes:

> Thanks Sam,
> I figured it had to be something like that. I checked with Cisco and 
> they have strictly windows drivers for the type of air card that I own. 
> I was hoping that the fedora software would have some software built in 
> but evidently not. Does someone know of a genereric  software download I 
> can use for a Cisco Aironet 340 PCI wireless card?
> 
> Thanks again Sam.

Again, as I said, post the output of 'lspci -v'. The brand name of you 
wireless card is completely, and utterly meaningless. Many different brands 
will often be the same exact wireless chipset underneath, and the same brand 
may ship with completely different chipset hardware, over time.

Unlike Windows, Linux does not use the "download a driver off the 
manufacturer's side, and install it" model of hardware support. There are 
some scattered manufacturers that allegedly offer drivers for download, but 
those are rarer. You will find that those drivers are for specific versions 
of Linux with a specific kernel version. Linux drivers must be compiled for 
each kernel version. Given that most distros issue updated kernels every 
month or so, you can easily see why the Windows model of driver installation 
does not work (and there are other reasons as well). With Linux, either the 
hardware is suppored by the kernel, or it's not.

So, as I said, the only way anyone would be able to help you is if you post 
the output of 'lspci -v', first. Chances are you only need to set up your 
firmware files.

> 
> Bill
> 
> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> Bill Marcum writes:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> I just started using Fedora / linux and I am having an issue with 
>>> wireless communication. I installed Fedora 8 on my laptop; I have 
>>> installed all of the updates available to this point. I am using an 
>>> old Dell Latitude Laptop with a cisco systems wireless card. It works 
>>> fine with widows it just doesn't seem to want to connect when I log 
>>> into Fedora. I am probably missing something but I don't know what it 
>>> is. The error that I am getting when I try to activate the card is 
>>> that it is an invalid argument (8b06). One of the things that I am 
>>> not sure about is how do I choose the type of wireless security I am 
>>> using? The cables side of the network system works fine.
>>>
>>> I am very familiar with wireless communications and I am pretty 
>>> knowledgeable about the windows software but any help you can provide 
>>> would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> You probably need to set up the firmware for your wireless card, 
>> presuming that your card is supported at all, in Linux.
>>
>> To determine your wireless hardware, oost the output of 'lspci -v' -- 
>> just the part that references your wireless interface.
>>
>>
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