PCMCIA Cisco Aironet 350/352 Run Time Trouble

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Hello,

Does anyone know how-to or is successfully running a Cisco Aironet 350/352 PCMCIA Network Card in Linux?

Here's my situation. I tried running it using the default Modules that are presented in the Red Hat 9 Kernel. Because that failed, I tried recompiling the kernel without PCMCIA Support and doing it the way it said in the manual. But this way around, it got me into even more problems.

When I plug in the network card, basically both lights turn on and do nothing. When I compiled my own version of PCMCIA-CS, version 3.2.x, it got me even into more problems. Forgot the exact error messages.

Here is the Error List I get during Bootup when I look in the logs. Some information may not be pertanent to the network card.

May 9 17:00:03 localhost kernel: Yenta IRQ list 02b8, PCI irq11
May 9 17:00:03 localhost kernel: Socket status: 30000010
May 9 17:00:03 localhost pcmcia: cardmgr.
May 9 17:00:04 localhost cardmgr[1069]: starting, version is 3.1.31
May 9 17:00:04 localhost rc: Starting pcmcia: succeeded
May 9 17:00:04 localhost cardmgr[1069]: watching 1 sockets
May 9 17:00:04 localhost cardmgr[1069]: Card Services release does not match
May 9 17:00:04 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
May 9 17:00:04 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x200-0x207 0x378-0x37f 0x408-0x40f 0x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7
May 9 17:00:04 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
May 9 17:00:04 localhost kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
May 9 17:00:04 localhost cardmgr[1069]: socket 0: 350 Series Wireless LAN Adapter
May 9 17:00:04 localhost cardmgr[1069]: executing: 'modprobe airo_cs'
May 9 17:00:04 localhost netfs: Mounting other filesystems: succeeded
May 9 17:00:04 localhost kernel: airo: Probing for PCI adapters
May 9 17:00:04 localhost kernel: airo: Finished probing for PCI adapters
May 9 17:00:05 localhost apmd[1095]: Version 3.0.2 (APM BIOS 1.2, Linux driver 1.16)
May 9 17:00:05 localhost apmd: apmd startup succeeded
May 9 17:00:05 localhost kernel: airo: Max tries exceeded waiting for command
May 9 17:00:06 localhost kernel: airo: MAC could not be enabled
May 9 17:00:06 localhost kernel: airo_cs: RequestConfiguration: Operation succeeded
May 9 17:00:06 localhost autofs: automount startup succeeded
May 9 17:00:06 localhost cardmgr[1069]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: Resource temporarily unavailable

Since, I have reinstalled the RedHat 9 Kernel but have no luck getting this card working. I have tried the 2.5.69 Kernel as well, but that one isn't getting me any luck either.

Just out of curiosity, can my problems be caused due to me having the unlucky ATI Radeon IGP 320M Bus on my Laptop?

Thanks for Everything.

Mark

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Anyone got any clues?

I've gotten a little further with the 2.5.69 Kernel, but its still giving me the RED Light Non stop, in which Cisco Says bad driver.

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Thanks for the no help...

Anyways, for anyone who may be experiencing a similar problem as I was, I found the fix. The loaded Firmware or the Firmware you load may not be linux compatible. Cisco release two firmwares, a Linux Compatible (which includes Windoze Compaitibility) and a Windows Only Compatible one. If you like me, which had the windows only one loaded, you will experience the same problem. Just reflash the card and it'll work on the next boot. Reflash in this case must be done on a windoze base.