Core 1 and Cisco AIR-PCM352

[bobm73]

I am having problems getting a Cisco Aironet 352 to work on my laptop, Compaq Evo N800C. I have googled quite a bit and followed installation instructions on Cisco's website, but those seem to be directed at older RedHat Distros. And I am fairlly new with Linux.

etho is my working ethernet connection and eth1 is the wireless connection that I can't get to work. Here are outputs from ifconfig and iwconfig commands:

[root@localhost root]# ifconfig
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:8F:9D:D0:0F
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:1026 (1.0 Kb)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:2730 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2730 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2251556 (2.1 Mb) TX bytes:2251556 (2.1 Mb)

[root@localhost root]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 no wireless extensions.

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[sevensola]

Did you use the Cisco aironet installer to install the driver and ACU (client utility)? Is this a mini-PCI or a PCMCIA card? As root, if it is a mini-PCI you'll need to modprobe mpi350.o If this is a PCMCIA you'll need to modprobe the airo_cs.o driver. Check to see that they are loaded using lsmod Once they are loaded, launch the Cisco ACU. open up ACU and under the status screen note the device name in parenthesis (example eth1, eth2, etc.). Once you have this, as root, open up the redhat-config-network and add that ethernet device. Make sure you add it as a Ethernet device and not a wireless divice.

Keep in mind that once you use the Cisco driver and ACU, iwconfig will not work. You'll have to use the Cisco ACU to configure the card. Also, ACU will not load if it can't detect a card loaded. If ACU doesn't load, your card isn't working using a driver yet. See this link for some really good info:

http://home.comcast.net/~i.pilcher/howto/

Hopefully this helps. I think it should as you are using a 2.4 kernel.

[sevensola]

Oh, and make sure you are using a supported firmware version as well. The latest Cisco aironet drivers for linux support up to firmware 5.30.17 Make sure that you aren't using anything newer than that as the Window$ installers support a newer firmware and will automatically install the latest version.

Good luck.