Trouble with Cisco Airo MPI350 and kernel-2.6.1+
Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com
Sun Feb 1 21:30:00 UTC 2004
Warren Togami wrote:
> Fabrice Bellet wrote:
>
>> Hi Warren,
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 07:48:57PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
>>
>>> IBM Thinkpad T41
>>> Cisco Airo MPI350 802.11b Wireless
>>> PCIID: 0x14b9 0xa504
>>> Kernel: Fedora rawhide 2.6.1-1.57 (Based on 2.6.2-rc1)
>>>
>>> http://bellet.info/~bellet/laptop/t40.html#wireless
>>> http://bellet.info/~bellet/laptop/airo.c-2.6.1-mm2.diff
>>> airo.ko does not support this Airo device, but with the addition of
>>> this patch it recognizes the device.
>>
>>
>>
> [SNIP]
> Used the ACU tool under Windows XP for flashing the firmware. The
> newest firmware version that operates with your driver is:
> 5.00.03
>
> Perhaps mention within a comment and/or config Help of your patch that
> the newest supported firmware is 5.00.03? That would save people like
> me a lot of time in the future...
>
Are these many errors normal?
[root at ibmlaptop etc]# iwconfig eth1
Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 16
of Wireless Extension, while this program is using version 15.
Some things may be broken...
eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"apophis" Nickname:"ibmlaptop"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412GHz Access Point: 00:0C:41:75:D4:02
Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=0/0
Retry limit:16 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:****-****-** Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality:30/0 Signal level:-70 dBm Noise level:-98 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:59 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:1 Invalid misc:4900 Missed beacon:3
[root at ibmlaptop etc]# ifconfig eth1
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:8A:DF:50:FC
inet addr:192.168.1.103 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::202:8aff:fedf:50fc/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:905 errors:655 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:655
TX packets:699 errors:33 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:30 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:439321 (429.0 Kb) TX bytes:118979 (116.1 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x8000
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