Cisco Aironet 350 Wireless and Kernel 2.6.5

[Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org>]

I'm using kernel-image-2.6.5-1-686 on a Toshibia laptop and I can get
one wireless card to work, but not the Airnet 350.  It works with the
old 2.4.21 kernel.

Any ideas how to get it working?

I can plug in a SMC2632W wireless card and it works.  iwconfig reports:

eth1      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"WLAN"  Nickname:"Prism  I"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462GHz  Access Point: 00:90:D1:01:0C:CC++
          Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   Sensitivity:1/3++
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:92/92  Signal level:-5 dBm  Noise level:-149 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

When I plug in a Cisco 350 card the power light on the card does not
come on.  Cardmgr does detects the card, though:

    Apr 18 20:54:33 localhost cardmgr[929]: socket 1: 350 Series Wireless LAN Adapter
    Apr 18 20:54:33 localhost cardmgr[929]: executing: 'modprobe airo_cs'
    Apr 18 20:54:33 localhost kernel: airo:  Probing for PCI adapters
    Apr 18 20:54:33 localhost kernel: airo:  Finished probing for PCI adapters
    Apr 18 20:54:34 localhost kernel: airo: cmd= 111
    Apr 18 20:54:34 localhost kernel: airo: status= 7f11
    Apr 18 20:54:34 localhost kernel: airo: Rsp0= 2
    Apr 18 20:54:34 localhost kernel: airo: Rsp1= 0
    Apr 18 20:54:34 localhost kernel: airo: Rsp2= 0
    Apr 18 20:54:34 localhost kernel: airo: Doing fast bap_reads
    Apr 18 20:54:34 localhost kernel: airo: MAC enabled eth1 0:9:7c:ae:5d:b0
    Apr 18 20:54:34 localhost kernel: eth1: index 0x05: Vcc 5.0, Vpp 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f
    Apr 18 20:54:34 localhost cardmgr[929]: executing: './network start eth1'

But iwconfig then shows to interfaces, and I cannot bring either up:

eth1      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"tsunami"++
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.442GHz  Access Point: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF++
          Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   Sensitivity=0/65535++
          Retry limit:16   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:176/10  Signal level:-110 dBm  Noise level:-110 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:28  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:22   Missed beacon:0

wifi0     IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"tsunami"++
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.442GHz  Access Point: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF++
          Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   Sensitivity=0/65535++
          Retry limit:16   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:176/10  Signal level:-110 dBm  Noise level:-110 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:28  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:22   Missed beacon:0

Why two interfaces with same data?

The ESSID shows "tsunami" -- Google turns up a lot with that name on
this card, so I assume is data from the card and not another access
point.  I did try:

   iwconfig eth1 essid WLAN

(and wifi0, too) but didn't do anything.

Any ideas what to check?



-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org