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steford

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Posted: Feb. 27 2006,23:26

Thanks mate. Still no go. Going to reflash at work tomorrow. DSL version is 2.2b by the way.

steford

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Posted: Mar. 04 2006,22:41

OK now have the last v4 firmware on the card but ... still no connection. I've tried everything now with this card.

Putting it into another old laptop and booting from CD works fine using netcardconfig so I'm now putting it down to the laptop hardware. Noticed a thread elsewhere about IRQ channels and sure enough I havea COM port asl oon IRQ3 - same as the Cisco card. Disabled this in BIOS but still no go on the card.

My other suspicion is the route table - which shows 192.168.0.1 * as the only entry (I use 192.168.1.1) as my gateway. Manually adding this though doesn't help and I can't ping 192.168.1.1 at all anyway. I can't delete the 192.168.0.1 line - although not sure how helpful that would be.

Everything else looks fine - with the correct eth0 and wifi0 appearing with all the correct values and set up in the same way as my other laptop. A wired PCMCIA card works fine on the machine so DNS and routing would seem to be OK.

Any final suggestions before I give up on this machine which I've wasted way too much time on already?

Thanks.

dare2dreamer Offline

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Posted: Mar. 05 2006,19:46

As I recall, there was a specific firmware version that was "more linux friendly"

Does anyone know how to get the card to cough up it's current firmware version under linux? I'd be happy to look mine up for you if I knew how.

R

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steford

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Posted: Mar. 13 2006,21:41

Current firmware version can be found in /proc/driver/aironet/ethX/Status where ethX is the interface assigned to your card

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Posted: Mar. 22 2006,06:22

Here ya go:

Code Sample

$:/proc/driver/aironet/eth0$ cat Status
Status: CFG ACT SYN LNK PRIV KEY WEP
Mode: 3bf
Signal Strength: 100
Signal Quality: 17
SSID: insomnia_dreamland
AP:
Freq: 0
BitRate: 11mbs
Driver Version: airo.c 0.6 (Ben Reed & Javier Achirica)
Device: 350 Series
Manufacturer: Cisco Systems
Firmware Version: 4.25.30
Radio type: 2
Country: 0
Hardware Version: 22
Software Version: 425
Software Subversion: 1e
Boot block version: 150

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