RHEL4 and Cisco Aironet 350

[Tapas Ranjan]

On Sat, 16 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?
	
After getting the power on your adapter,
Try few things like : if not iwconfig, then /sbin/iwconifg : being a su.

root at bla ~] iwconfig eth1 key on
root at bla ~] iwconfig eth1 key off
root at bla ~] iwconfig eth1 mode managed
root at bla ~] iwconfig eth1 rate auto

	I am not sure, which of these will work for you, and whether you 
have any key to set or not. But in many occasions, these works for me, 
when I couldn't get my AP. I am using FC2.

	Good luck
	---Tapas



> 
> Many thanks,
> Jaap Hoetmer
> 
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Tapas Ranjan Sarangi
Institute of Paricle and Nuclear Studies, KEK
JAPAN
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