[TriLUG] ibm T40 with the built in cisco aironet card

[Ralph Blach]

Kevin,

First I need to get the old fimware, I have 5.20.17
Where do I get the old firmware?

Thanks

Chip

Kevin Sonney wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 04:57:56PM -0500, Ralph Blach spoke thusly:
> 
>>I have a IBM t40 with a build in cisco aironet wireless card and  am 
>>running redhat 9.0
> 
> 
> I've got a t41 with a Cisco MPI350 Card. I'm currently running
> FC2test2 (plus rawhide) and 2.6.4 kernel. 
> 
> The MPI350 is a very, very tricky beast. Using the RHEL 3 kernel and
> the mpi350 module (from airo-linux.sourceforge.net) I am able to use
> WEP and the MPI350 with no issues. 
> 
> The newer unified airo/mpi350 driver, however, doesn't work with
> WEP. This is the case both in 2.4.2x and 2.6.x. I *AM* able to use the ACU
> to confiure the card, though. It just doesn't talk properly to the
> network if WEP (64-bit or 128-bit) is enabled.  
> 
> The cisco airo PCMCIA card works just fine. 
> 
> 
>>has anybody gotten a cisco aironet to work on a linksys router with 
>>preset encription keys?
> 
> 
> Well, I don't use WEP at home, so no. But I think it's do-able. using
> the right kernel/driver/firmware combination. First things first ;
> 
> 1) make sure you ahve the 5.00.03 firmware for the MPI350 - and not
>    anything newer. The newer firmware doesn't play nice with Linux.
> 2) Make sure you use the mpi350 kernel module, and not the unified
>    airo/mpi350 airo module
> 3) run the acu as root. It doesn't let you configure everything as a
>    "normal" user. 
> 
> Do you ahve something more exact than "doesn't work" - what are the
> symptoms? 
> 
>