RHEL4 and Cisco Aironet 350

[Jaap Hoetmer]

Thanks for the reactions. I have tried many hours to
get it to work, even downgrading the Aironet's
firmware, but nothing worked. In the end I decided to
install FC3, to see if that would work. And it did!
First time after installation it came up properly, I
configured the ESSID, and it connected successfully.

Conclusion? I think something's not right in RHEL 4,
but I am unable to pinpoint what exactly.

Regards,
Jaap Hoetmer

--- Tapas Ranjan <sarangi at bpost.kek.jp> wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Jaap Hoetmer wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to get my Cisco Aironet 350 series
> > wireless PCMCIA card to work on RHEL4 AS, but it
> fails
> > to connect to my access point; under WinXP this
> works
> > fine.
> > 
> > The adapter was detected correctly, an installed
> as
> > eth1 accordingly. The ifcfg-eth1 file says:
> > # Please read
> > /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
> > # for the documentation of these parameters.
> > IPV6INIT=no
> > ONBOOT=no
> > USERCTL=no
> > PEERDNS=yes
> > GATEWAY=
> > TYPE=Wireless
> > DEVICE=eth1
> > HWADDR=00:0f:f8:4d:ae:70
> > BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> > NETMASK=
> > DHCP_HOSTNAME=
> > IPADDR=
> > DOMAIN=
> > ESSID=retuelle
> > CHANNEL=6
> > MODE=Managed
> > RATE=11Mb/s
> > 
> > When trying to enable the adapter, it says it
> tries to
> > retrieve IP address information, but times out
> > eventually, saying it failed.
> > 
> > dmesg tells me:
> > 
> > airo:  Probing for PCI adapters
> > airo:  Finished probing for PCI adapters
> > airo: cmd= 111
> > airo: status= 7f11
> > airo: Rsp0= 2
> > airo: Rsp1= 0
> > airo: Rsp2= 0
> > airo: Doing fast bap_reads
> > divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
> > divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet
> > device wifi0
> > airo: MAC enabled eth1 0:f:f8:4d:ae:70
> > eth1: index 0x05: Vcc 5.0, Vpp 5.0, irq 3, io
> > 0x0100-0x013f
> > 
> > Syslog tells me:
> > 
> > Apr 16 23:34:55 localhost dhclient: wifi0: unknown
> > hardware address type 801
> > Apr 16 23:34:56 localhost dhclient: wifi0: unknown
> > hardware address type 801
> > Apr 16 23:34:57 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER
> on
> > eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
> > Apr 16 23:35:02 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER
> on
> > eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
> > Apr 16 23:35:11 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER
> on
> > eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
> > Apr 16 23:35:26 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER
> on
> > eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
> > Apr 16 23:35:34 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER
> on
> > eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
> > Apr 16 23:35:44 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER
> on
> > eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
> > Apr 16 23:35:55 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER
> on
> > eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
> > Apr 16 23:35:58 localhost dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS
> > received.
> > 
> > 
> > Can anyone confirm this adapter should work in
> RHEL4,
> > and provide advice on what to do in order to get
> it to
> > work?
> 	
> After getting the power on your adapter,
> Try few things like : if not iwconfig, then
> /sbin/iwconifg : being a su.
> 
> root at bla ~] iwconfig eth1 key on
> root at bla ~] iwconfig eth1 key off
> root at bla ~] iwconfig eth1 mode managed
> root at bla ~] iwconfig eth1 rate auto
> 
> 	I am not sure, which of these will work for you,
> and whether you 
> have any key to set or not. But in many occasions,
> these works for me, 
> when I couldn't get my AP. I am using FC2.
> 
> 	Good luck
> 	---Tapas
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > Many thanks,
> > Jaap Hoetmer
> > 
> > 
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> Tapas Ranjan Sarangi
> Institute of Paricle and Nuclear Studies, KEK
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