Re: Cisco Aironet mini PCI 802.11b

From: Chris Kloiber, RHCX (ckloiber_at_redhat.com)
Date: 04/10/04

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Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 21:53:07 +0800

    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. 

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Chris Kloiber, RHCX
Red Hat, Inc.
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