Wireless communications.

[Bill Marcum]

Thanks Sam,
I figured it had to be something like that. I checked with Cisco and 
they have strictly windows drivers for the type of air card that I own. 
I was hoping that the fedora software would have some software built in 
but evidently not. Does someone know of a genereric  software download I 
can use for a Cisco Aironet 340 PCI wireless card?

Thanks again Sam.

Bill

Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Bill Marcum writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I just started using Fedora / linux and I am having an issue with 
>> wireless communication. I installed Fedora 8 on my laptop; I have 
>> installed all of the updates available to this point. I am using an 
>> old Dell Latitude Laptop with a cisco systems wireless card. It works 
>> fine with widows it just doesn't seem to want to connect when I log 
>> into Fedora. I am probably missing something but I don't know what it 
>> is. The error that I am getting when I try to activate the card is 
>> that it is an invalid argument (8b06). One of the things that I am 
>> not sure about is how do I choose the type of wireless security I am 
>> using? The cables side of the network system works fine.
>>
>> I am very familiar with wireless communications and I am pretty 
>> knowledgeable about the windows software but any help you can provide 
>> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> You probably need to set up the firmware for your wireless card, 
> presuming that your card is supported at all, in Linux.
>
> To determine your wireless hardware, oost the output of 'lspci -v' -- 
> just the part that references your wireless interface.
>
>