Cisco Aironet Wireless 802.11b - Revision history

Bugmenot2: changed categorization

2020-11-16T11:18:34Z

changed categorization

Jdthood: /* Linux WiFi driver */

2009-02-15T03:48:45Z

‎Linux WiFi driver

Rachelsdad: Relocated OS/2 & eCS driver section

2009-01-24T23:05:06Z

Relocated OS/2 & eCS driver section

Rachelsdad: added mentioin of support under GenMAC 2.20 for OS/2 and eCS.

2009-01-24T23:03:22Z

added mentioin of support under GenMAC 2.20 for OS/2 and eCS.

Jdthood: /* Linux WiFi driver */

2006-07-30T12:41:34Z

‎Linux WiFi driver

58.187.24.109: /* Features */

2005-12-26T12:23:57Z

‎Features

Tonko: /* IBM Partnumbers */

2005-12-14T18:51:47Z

‎IBM Partnumbers

Wyrfel: /* Known problems */

2005-10-19T11:15:16Z

‎Known problems

Dananderson: /* Known problems */ updates

2005-10-19T04:34:56Z

‎Known problems: updates

Dananderson: /* Known problems */ grammar

2005-10-17T16:50:52Z

‎Known problems: grammar

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	*[http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-51424 IBMs page on Wireless configuration under Linux]		*[http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-51424 IBMs page on Wireless configuration under Linux]

−	[[Category:~~Components~~]]	+	[[Category:WLAN Adapters]]

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 * 802.11b Cisco Wireless Card (Sherman III)
-=== Linux WiFi driver ===
+=== Linux Wi-Fi driver ===
 A free Linux 'airo' driver is available, and included in recent 2.6 kernels.

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 The current Cisco driver version is 2.1 and only supports select Linux 2.4 kernels.
 The Cisco driver does not support Linux commands such as iwconfig. However, one can use the Cisco ACU GUI with the Linux 'airo' driver for read-only status information.
 === Known problems ===
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 Get firmware information from {{path|/proc/driver/aironet/eth?/Status}} (eth0 or eth1) (airo driver) or {{path|/proc/driver/mpi350/Status}} (mpi350 driver).
 === ThinkPads this card may be found in ===

← Older revision		Revision as of 23:03, 24 January 2009
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	Get firmware information from {{path\|/proc/driver/aironet/eth?/Status}} (eth0 or eth1) (airo driver) or {{path\|/proc/driver/mpi350/Status}} (mpi350 driver).		Get firmware information from {{path\|/proc/driver/aironet/eth?/Status}} (eth0 or eth1) (airo driver) or {{path\|/proc/driver/mpi350/Status}} (mpi350 driver).
		+
		+	====OS/2 and eCS====
		+	This card should be supported by [http://genmac.netlabs.org/en/site/downloads.xml GenMAC] 2.20 and above.

	=== ThinkPads this card may be found in ===		=== ThinkPads this card may be found in ===

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 === Linux WiFi driver ===
-A opensource Linux 'airo' driver is available, and included in recent 2.6 kernels.
+A free Linux 'airo' driver is available, and included in recent 2.6 kernels.
-There is a [http://airo-linux.sourceforge.net/ sourceforge] project page for this driver, but it seems unmaintained.
 One of the developers has his own project page [http://bellet.info/laptop/t40.html#wireless here], but there have not been any updates since September 2004.

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 [[image:mini-pci-wifi-card.gif|Mini-PCI WiFi Adapter]]
 |}
 === IBM Partnumbers ===
 IBM Order PN (WW): 31P8301<br>

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 IBM FRU PN (China): 26P8325, 26P8371, 26P8502<br>
 Other IBM FRU PN: 91P7406,91P7408,91P7410,26P7412
 === Also known (in IBM literature) as.... ===

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 === Known problems ===
-''Linux 2.4'' Older airo or mpi350 drivers might not work with certain (more recent) Cisco [http://bellet.info/laptop/airo_mpi.HOWTO.txt firmware]. Evidently there is a Windows tool where you can modify the firmware, but if you've already nuked your win32 partition like I have, you'll be in a pickle. For Linux 2.4, you want older firmware version 5b00.08 or 5.00.03, which is available with version 3.4.9 of the Cisco Windows drivers.
+====Linux 2.4====
-There also have been reports that the Window driver auto-magically updates the firmware, so if you dual boot between operating systems one day your Wireless under the Linux kernel may stop working. I haven't had that happen to me, but be careful about Windows Update or Microsoft Update. ''Never'' update the Cisco software in Windows&mdash;it also updates the firmware silently.
+{{NOTE|There also have been reports that the Window driver auto-magically updates the firmware, so if you dual boot between operating systems one day your linux wireless driver may stop working. Be careful about Windows Update or Microsoft Update. '''Never''' update the Cisco software in Windows - it also updates the firmware silently.}}
-''Linux 2.6'' For Linux 2.6, this is not a problem. Cisco updated its mpi350 driver and the fixes have been reverse-engineered and incorporated in the open-source airo driver for Linux 2.6.  I am running Cisco firmware version 5.60.17 (and previously 5.20.17) with Linux 2.6.11 (supplied with SuSE 9.3) and airo driver 0.6. The firmware was upgraded under WinXP automatically with the Cisco driver update. The older firmware also works with the Linux 2.6 driver
+====Linux 2.6====
-Get firmware information from  {{path|/proc/driver/aironet/eth?/Status}} (eth0 or eth1) (airo driver) or {{path|/proc/driver/mpi350/Status}} (mpi350 driver).
+Get firmware information from {{path|/proc/driver/aironet/eth?/Status}} (eth0 or eth1) (airo driver) or {{path|/proc/driver/mpi350/Status}} (mpi350 driver).
 === ThinkPads this card may be found in ===

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 There also have been reports that the Window driver auto-magically updates the firmware, so if you dual boot between operating systems one day your Wireless under the Linux kernel may stop working. I haven't had that happen to me, but be careful about Windows Update or Microsoft Update. ''Never'' update the Cisco software in Windows&mdash;it also updates the firmware silently.
-''Linux 2.6'' For Linux 2.6, this is not a problem. Cisco updated it's mpi350 driver and the fixes have been reverse-engineered and incorporated in the open-source airo driver for Linux 2.6.  I am running Cisco firmware version 5.20.17 with Linux 2.6.11 (supplied with SuSE 9.3) and airo driver 0.6. The firmware was upgraded under WinXP automatically with the Cisco driver update. The older firmware also works with the Linux 2.6 driver
+''Linux 2.6'' For Linux 2.6, this is not a problem. Cisco updated its mpi350 driver and the fixes have been reverse-engineered and incorporated in the open-source airo driver for Linux 2.6.  I am running Cisco firmware version 5.20.17 with Linux 2.6.11 (supplied with SuSE 9.3) and airo driver 0.6. The firmware was upgraded under WinXP automatically with the Cisco driver update. The older firmware also works with the Linux 2.6 driver
 Get firmware information from  {{path|/proc/driver/aironet/eth?/Status}} (eth0 or eth1) (airo driver) or {{path|/proc/driver/mpi350/Status}} (mpi350 driver).