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Help required: Aironet 350 CPMCIA adapter installation in RH Linux 9

suddars
Level 1
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Hi,

I am trying to install Cisco Aironet 350 adapter card in a Laptop. I have downloaded the latest drivers from Cisco site which did not work so tried with default drivers which come with RH9 this also fails. I request you people to help me.

following is the full info.

Aironet 350 Firmware Ver: 5.30.17

Linux Driver Ver:

a. Linux-ACU-Driver-v2.0

b. Default which comes with RHLinux9

PCMCIA driver : the default RH9 ver.

-------log messages in /var/log/message--------

Feb 21 17:59:41 Linux-WLAN cardmgr[3189]: executing: 'modprobe -r airo_cs'

Feb 21 17:59:42 Linux-WLAN cardmgr[3189]: socket 0: 350 Series Wireless LAN Adapter

Feb 21 17:59:42 Linux-WLAN cardmgr[3189]: executing: 'modprobe airo_cs'

Feb 21 17:59:42 Linux-WLAN kernel: airo: Probing for PCI adapters

Feb 21 17:59:42 Linux-WLAN kernel: airo: Finished probing for PCI adapters

Feb 21 17:59:43 Linux-WLAN kernel: airo: Max tries exceeded waiting for command

Feb 21 17:59:43 Linux-WLAN kernel: airo: MAC could not be enabled

Feb 21 17:59:43 Linux-WLAN kernel: airo_cs: RequestConfiguration: Operation succeeded

Feb 21 17:59:44 Linux-WLAN cardmgr[3189]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: Resource temporarily unavailabl

-------log messages in /var/log/message--------

Executing ACU utility which comes from "Linux-ACU-Driver-v2.0" fail saying "No radio found".

Tried running bcard utility which exits prematurely.

-----strace ./bcard output --------

execve("./bcard", ["./bcard"], [/* 33 vars */]) = 0

uname({sys="Linux", node="Linux-WLAN", ...}) = 0

brk(0) = 0x805d710

old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40016000

open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3

fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=41242, ...}) = 0

old_mmap(NULL, 41242, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40017000

close(3) = 0

open("/lib/tls/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3

read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\2004\0"..., 512) = 512

fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=211948, ...}) = 0

old_mmap(NULL, 138496, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40022000

old_mmap(0x40043000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x20000) = 0x40043000

close(3) = 0

open("/lib/tls/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3

read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0`V\1B4\0"..., 512) = 512

fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1531064, ...}) = 0

old_mmap(0x42000000, 1257224, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x42000000

old_mmap(0x4212e000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x12e000) = 0x4212e000

old_mmap(0x42131000, 7944, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x42131000

close(3) = 0

old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40044000

set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0x40044280, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0

munmap(0x40017000, 41242) = 0

brk(0) = 0x805d710

brk(0x805e710) = 0x805e710

brk(0) = 0x805e710

brk(0x805f000) = 0x805f000

open("/proc/aironet", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

open("/proc/driver/aironet", O_RDONLY) = 3

close(3) = 0

socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 3

ioctl(3, 0x89f1, 0x805d770) = 0

socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 4

ioctl(4, 0x89f1, 0x805d770) = -1 ENODEV (No such device)

socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 5

ioctl(5, 0x89f1, 0x805d770) = -1 ENODEV (No such device)

socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 6

ioctl(6, 0x89f1, 0x805d770) = -1 ENODEV (No such device)

socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 7

ioctl(7, 0x89f1, 0x805d770) = -1 ENODEV (No such device)

exit_group(1) = ?

-----strace ./bcard output --------

Both LEDs on the card are ON continuously.

Please let me know if any more info is required.

Thanks

Sudarshan

2 Replies 2

kmarrero
Level 4
Level 4

At this time Cisco does not have any drivers for Redhat 9 and I am not sure if and when there will be any drivers for that version of Linux.

well, i don't know about the drivers...but i had the exact same problem and downgrading the card firmware to 4.25.30 cured it (really!). i had to do this on a windows box though because the linux acu won't start if it can't see the 'radio'.

now, if anybody out there can help me figure out the interaction between the acu and the linux network settings thingy i'd appreciate it...i have to bounce between the two of them several times before dhcp actually worked which is not cool.

anyway, downgrade your firmware.

c.

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