RHEL4 and Cisco Aironet 350

[Jaap Hoetmer]

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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