RHEL4 and Cisco Aironet 350

[jomy abraham]

  hi
i am having cisco aironet 350 series working fine on rhel4 es. i just created ifcfg-eth1 in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/, with the contents as

DEVICE=eth1
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=no
ZEROCONF=no
IPV6INIT=no
MODE="managed"
ESSID="linksys"
KEY3=xxxxxxxxxx
TYPE=Ethernet
  
and giving ifup eth1 will associate with my configured wireless device. 
hope this helps u
bye




On Sun, 17 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?
>
>Many thanks,
>Jaap Hoetmer
>
>
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