Cisco Aironet 350 (FreeDOS, MS-DOS, Windows 98) driver and utility

[luke776]

Hi,

This links here gives Access Denied because of Policy violation: https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless-mobility-knowledge-base/how-to-install-windows-drivers-for-the-aironet-client-adapter/ta-p/3132537

Please supply Cisco Aironet 350 (FreeDOS, MS-DOS, Windows 98) driver and utility for Retro Gaming communities (Vogons.org)

[marce1000]

 - FYI : https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/wireless/aironet-wireless-lan-client-adapters/series.html

 M.

[luke776]

Hi, yes, I know this page. Been there. Drivers are missing. There are only
Windows XP drivers. I cannot find any release notes or PDF documents for
Windows 98 as well. It looks like someone from Cisco pulled it off.

[luke776]

Your proposal of a solution is not correct.

[patoberli]

As @marce1000 stated, download this file here: Win-Client-802.11a-b-Ins-Wizard-v18.exe

It's a self extracting ZIP. Inside the folder PCI-PCM\9X-Me-2K\ you find the drivers for Windows 9x. If it's not working with this one, try the PCC-MPI folder.

[luke776]

Yes, I’m software developer, I already did it before even posting here.

You have issues there:

- does not contain ms-dos driver what about that? Everyone is quiet.

- release notes and pdf documents cannot be downloaded, your website throws http 302 redirect on generic product page

Nothing has been answered so far. Nobody would know to look inside exe archive. This exe archive cannot be executed. I had to use 7-zip just to look inside. PDF not working. Release notes not working. DOS driver missing. Also in exe archive there is only newer NT Kernel app for your wireless client, right? The wireless client must be compatible with OS driver and I think I might have some mismatch there. For the time being, I found some more information on Toshiba website for Portege. I have 5 retro laptops, 10 retro computing devices, so there is a lot of ways to poke left and right. But I bought brand new Aironet 350 PCMCIA as well. Guy on Youtube with hundreds thousands views recommend it as the best networking card for retro laptops. But our community needs you fix your website. You redesign website and everything throws redirects and I get only information that is not relevant much. I am still waiting for solution here. Thank you!

[patoberli]

I have neither a card nor a compatible laptop to test this sorry. 
But the files inside the compressed file should work with Windows 98, did you try that?

Not sure if Wi-Fi and DOS ever will work, because Wi-Fi didn't exist when the DOS development stopped. I rather suggest you get an PCMCIA card with a LAN port, that might be supported with DOS.

Please note, we here are all customers and this is (mostly) a customer help customer forum. 

[luke776]

So, to be exact, it will unzip to Temp folder and throw error after that. Who will do his investigation will find w9x folder in system Temp.

if you are not sure, better don’t give false assumption to other people. There are official Cisco drivers for DOS.

with the help of someone from the outside, we have found official Cisco documentation for DOS here via Google: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/wlan_adapter/350_cb20a/user/ms-dos/configuration/guide/instlcfg/DosUtilities.pdf

First step says: install driver.

Can somebody fix Cisco website and links and description for win2000/xp driver that it contains win9x driver as well?

This is website issue, not product issue. So it does not apply to having service contract with Cisco. Cisco won’t allow me to send them this issue in their system unless I have paid service contract with them.

[Chris L]

DOS Driver? Go here: http://cgs.coalmont.net/air350.zip

Tutorial for setup?  I've got you covered: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3CCG-wfabo

Windows 95/98 driver? Go here: http://sdfox7.com/cisco350/350-Windows-95-Bundle-2.1.exe

You're welcome.  Enjoy.

[Chris L]

Link Rot has gotten us again.  Fortunately, the Internet Archive saves us with drivers for multiple operating systems, ranging from DOS to Windows XP actually!  https://archive.org/details/cisco-client

But just in case, the drivers from my last post are now in my GitHub repo as well:

DOS Driver: https://github.com/cml37/dos-utils/blob/master/config/resources/air350.zip

Windows 95/98 driver: https://github.com/cml37/dos-utils/blob/master/config/resources/350-Windows-95-Bundle-2.1.exe