On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Chris Kloiber, RHCX wrote: > On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 20:31, Paola Pettinelli wrote: > > Hi all, I have a Fedora distribution installed on my > > laptop, an IBM R40. I have a network wireless card in > > it. The lspci command shows me it is a cisco aironet > > mini PCI 802.11b card. I can see a module about cisco > > aironet min PCI 802.11 cards in > > /lib/modules/something_I_don't_remember/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ > > per la scheda Cisco/Aironet 802.11. This module name > > is airo.o. It is not loaded on boot and if I load it > > manually it is not associated to the wireless card nad > > uppears as unused in lsmod output. So I think it is > > not the right driver. Does someone where I can find > > the right driver? On the Cisco web site I can see just > > Windows solutions... > > Thanks in advance > > Paola > > And I've got one that just works (In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3) but not > in front of me. Seriously I think that I heard that the newer firmware > revisions of those cards do *not* work with the driver in Linux. Do some > Googling. Unfortunately you need Windows to downgrade it. airo.o does not work with the MPI card--you need airo_mpi.o. Get the kernel-module-airo_mpi RPM from Dag Wieers' respository. (I understand this driver is supposed to be included in kernel 2.6, so we can hope this problem will go away in FC2.) You do need to downgrade the firmware to 5.00.03 using the Windows firmware installer from Cisco's site and if you dual boot, you'll also want to downgrade the Windows driver to the one that uses that firmware. Otherwise, every time you boot Windows, it will helpfully upgrade the firmware for you. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
