RE: Wireless Mini-PCI

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sorry Wolf ... that just takes me to the config gui ... which
unfortunately is no help ...



On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 17:48, Wolfgang Gill wrote:
> So I take it that running NEAT didn't help??
> 
> Wolf
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Griffis [mailto:mgriffis@griffisconsulting.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 8 January 2003 9:52 AM
> To: psyche-list@redhat.com
> Subject: RE: Wireless Mini-PCI
> 
> 
> Tommy,
> 
> Thanks for responding.
> 
> On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 18:18, Tommy McNeely wrote:
> > 
> > so... if it appears as a PCI card instead of a PCMCIA card, you might have
> 
> > issues :-/
> 
> It is in fact an internal PCI card (Mini-PCI) not a PCMCIA card.  Is
> this still an issue?  Is there something I don't know?
> 
> I downloaded the Linux Drivers from the Cisco site per Jean Tourrilhes
> instructions.  
> http://www.cisco.com/public/sw-center/sw-wireless.shtml
> 
> And followed all of the instructions.  The driver loads but when I run
> the utilities it returns "radio not found" 
> 
> Seems like the card isn't associated with the driver ... I'm relatively
> new to Linux so I have no idea how to configure that ...
> 
> mg
>  
> > 
> > modprobe aironet4500_cs
> > 
> > (thats the PCMCIA driver... never know)
> > 
> > 
> > [tommy@pickles net]$ ls -l aironet4500_*
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        14656 Dec 12 02:58 aironet4500_card.o
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        76676 Dec 12 02:58 aironet4500_core.o
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        80296 Dec 12 02:58 aironet4500_proc.o
> > [tommy@pickles net]$ pwd
> > /lib/modules/2.4.18-19.8.0/kernel/drivers/net
> > 
> > 
> > modprobe aironet4500_core
> > modprobe aironet4500_card
> > modprobe aironet4500_proc
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I am not sure what order to put them it though
> > 
> > 
> > Tommy
> > 
> > 
> > --On Wednesday, January 08, 2003 11:40:48 AM +1100 Wolfgang Gill 
> > <wolfgang@botanybay.nsw.gov.au> wrote:
> > 
> > > Try running 'neat' from the command line. And see if it see's and
> installs
> > > the driver. We used it here on a Notebook with wireless network and it
> > > worked very well. It didn't install the driver from Linux install, but
> > > running neat fixed that for us.
> > >
> > > Wolf
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Michael Griffis [mailto:mgriffis@griffisconsulting.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, 7 January 2003 12:12 PM
> > > To: psyche-list@redhat.com
> > > Subject: Wireless Mini-PCI
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I am running RH8 on a IBM T30.  My machine was shipped with an internal
> > > "Cisco Aironet Mini-PCI Wireless Card by IBM." I thought the Aironet was
> > > a pretty widely supported card under Linux but I am having some trouble
> > > configuring it.
> > >
> > > The system seems to acknowledge that the card is there:
> > > if I /sbin/lspci I get
> > >
> > > 02:02.0 Network controller: AIRONET Wireless Communications: Unknown
> > > device a504
> > >
> > > If I try to add the wireless device however using the network
> > > configuration tool it doesn't seem to recognize that this is a
> > > network/wireless device ... the wizard menus only allow me to select
> > > "Other wireless card."  I've tried this using several different drivers
> > > (Cisco/Aironet 802.11 wireless, Aironet 4500 PCI) with little results.
> > >
> > > Anyone out there have any words of wisdom?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > mg
> 
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