Re: Cisco Aironet 350 wireless in FC2-2.6.5

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Tapas Ranjan wrote:
> Hi :
> 	I was trying to set up a Cisco wireless lan card on a dell 
> inspiron 2100 which has FC2 with 2.6.5 kernel version.
> 	The card blinks with "modprobe yenta_socket" and xmit packets.
> But the Rx packet is always 0 and also it can't see the access point.
> After googling in for 3-4 hours, I couldn't get any solution to my 
> problem.

I think I answered this in a previous posting by you.  If this is
related to your other question, PLEASE don't start another thread.
Just reply to your own posting and put in an "UPDATE" line in the body.

First, the vast majority of wireless cards under a 2.6 kernel are
"wlan0" rather than "eth1" but yours many be an exception.  We need
more details as to what kind of card it is.  Cisco makes a number of
wireless cards and since we don't know what kind it is, we can't
recommend which driver is the right one to use.  We need the output of
"cardmgr" or the contents of the "/var/lib/pcmcia/stab" file if cardmgr
is already running.

> 	Since I don't have a "usb" drive with me write now, I am unable 
> to send you the "iwconfig eth1" results. If you need that with any other
> informations, I will be glad to send it to you. Hope to get some reply.

You need to edit the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 (or
ifcfg-wlan0) file and make sure you have lines similar to:

DEVICE=eth1 (or DEVICE=wlan0)
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ESSID="youressid open"

That is the ABSOLUTE MINIMUM for a wireless card.
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