wireless problems w/ Cisco Aironet

Ernest L. Williams Jr. ernesto at ornl.gov
Wed Aug 25 14:10:09 UTC 2004


Hi Chip,

I have so a card and it works great.

What version of the kernel do you have?

I am running FC3 Test1:
kernel 2.6.8-1.526



Thank,
Ernest



On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 09:06, Maurice F. Piller wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have a Cisco pcmcia wireless network card for my laptop, it's an Aironet
> PCM352 type.  I am unable to get this card to work properly with FC3T1, however
> the card works when I boot the laptop with a Knoppix 3.3 CD.  Anyone have this
> card working with Fedora?
> 
> Fedora loads yenta_socket, ds, airo, airo_cs modules.  The card is activated
> and when I issue "iwconfig eth0 essid any" the card will find the access point
> and get the correct essid value.
>   
> I can also do an "ifcfg eth0 up" or sometimes "/etc/rc.d/init.d/network
> restart" and it appears to bring up the interface but it does not work
> properly.  
> 
> What happens is that I will get an ip address, but when I try mozilla it cannot
> connect to anything.  I try to ssh to a remote machine, and I can actually
> login to the remote machine successfully but then the connection will lock
> up/freeze immediately.
> 
> Thanks,
> --Maurice
> 





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