Fedora 2 won't recognize Cisco Aironet 350 PCMCIA card

[ReK410]

Hi all, thanks for reading.

I've got a Dell Lattitude C600 laptop, a Cisco Airo 350 wireless card (with the latest firmware) and an running a freshly installed copy of Fedora 2. Its a duel-boot laptop with FreeBSD 5.2 installed as well. The card works beautifully in FBSD.

The card was detected during install, and when I load gnome and check the "Network Configuration" tool, it shows the card in the devices list, as both wifi0 and eth1. Both have a status of Inactive.

I've manually configured the IP info for both interfaces (using same IP for both, since neither are working yet) and when I reboot or just run the "activate" button in "Network Configuration", it fails to set the card "active".

The error message I get it "airo_cs eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization" - I don't know what this means.

Any advice as to how to get this card started and online would be greatly appreciated!!!

 

[sh00der]

I don't think you should have eth1 AND wifi0. I'm not certain about any of this but I would try deleting eth1 (you might then need to exit and restart the network config tool) and then use the network settings from FreeBSD to set up wifi0.

Are you getting any lights on the wireless card?

 

[ReK410]

Thanks, you are right, having eth1 and wifi0 did cause a problem. I removed both, rebooted and then installed just eth1 (that was what the system chose, rather than wifi0).

After doing this, the card will become "active" and I can ping the cards IP address but cannot ping the AP. Iwconfig does show the correct MAC of the AP.

I used ifconfig to setup the card in FBSD, I cannot in linux because some of the paramaters need to be set in iwconfig in linux. To make it easier, I just use the GUI tools, where I know all the settings are sticking.

Any help from here would be appreciated!!