Cisco aironet 350 series driver/card not working

[smurgai]

Keyword: Cisco, Aironet, 350

Hello -

A linux newbie here. I am trying to get my wireless card to work with Fiesty Fawn but so far no luck. I went through the suggested steps to find the problem but I was not able to resolve. I have searched the forums but did not see anything specific that would help resolve the issue. I would appreciate any help or suggestions.

1) First I confirmed that the driver and card should be compatible with Linux on this site. It said I would use the airo_cs driver. http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_c...hipset=Aironet

2) The result of hardware command:
sorabh@home-laptop:~$ sudo lshw -C network
*-network
description: Cisco Systems
physical id: 0
version: 350 Series Wireless LAN Adapter
slot: Socket 0
resources: irq:3
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: Cardbus Ethernet 10/100
vendor: Xircom
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@06:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 03
serial: 00:10:a4:76:66:e5
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=xircom_cb ip=192.168.0.105
latency=64 maxlatency=40 mingnt=20 multicast=yes
resources: ioport:2400-247f iomemory:2c000000-2c0007ff
iomemory:2c000800-2c000fff irq:11
*-network
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
logical name: eth1
serial: 00:08:21:31:ac:24
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11-DS

As you can see it does show my Cisco card, and a wireless interface but strangely enough it breaks it into two different *network entries.

Also as you can see there is no driver listed for the Wireless Card.

2) When I list the PCI devices I get the following output
sorabh@home-laptop:~$ sudo lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:02.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev 03)
00:02.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev 03)
00:03.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems WinModem 56k (rev 01)
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01)
00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV (rev 13)
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Xircom Cardbus Ethernet 10/100 (rev 03)

As you can see my wireless device is not listed.

3) The list of modules does show the driver loaded
sorabh@home-laptop:~$ sudo lsmod | grep airo
airo_cs 7168 1
airo 74400 1 airo_cs
pcmcia 39212 1 airo_cs
pcmcia_core 40852 4 airo_cs,pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic

4) The list of wireless interfaces
sorabh@home-laptop:~$ sudo iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

irda0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Invalid
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=0/65535
Retry limit:16 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=-114 dBm Noise level=-87 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:2381 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:8718 Missed beacon:0

wifi0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Invalid
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=0/65535
Retry limit:16 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=-114 dBm Noise level=-87 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:2381 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:8718 Missed beacon:0

5) The list of network interfaces
sorabh@home-laptop:~$ sudo ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:A4:76:66:E5
inet addr:192.168.0.105 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::210:a4ff:fe76:66e5/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3330 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2067 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2799170 (2.6 MiB) TX bytes:345403 (337.3 KiB)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x2400

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:21:31:AC:24
inet6 addr: fe80::208:21ff:fe31:ac24/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:828 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:828
TX packets:3 errors:3 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:202 (202.0 b)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100

eth1:avah Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:21:31:AC:24
inet addr:169.254.4.66 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100

6) I confirmed the radio is on by scanning for the different wireless networks
sorabh@home-laptop:~$ sudo iwlist eth1 scan
eth1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:80:C8:01:76:44
ESSID:"default"
Mode:Master
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Quality=72/100 Signal level=-59 dBm Noise level:-87 dBm
Encryption keyff
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 22 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Cell 02 - Address: 00:12:17:BE:64:CC
ESSID:"greenblatt"
Mode:Master
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality=24/100 Signal level=-83 dBm Noise level:-87 dBm
Encryption keyn
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100


It looks like my driver is loaded and my card is working but either my driver is not associated with the card or something else is amiss in the connection. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

Sorabh

[smurgai]

Re: Cisco aironet 350 series driver/card not working

Wow - Solved. There was a bug report for this and someone had a solution that worked.

If you have this problem try

sudo iwconfig eth1 key off
sudo iwconfig eth1 key off
sudo ifdown eth1
sudo ifup eth1


and it should work.

[sc0ut64]

Re: Solved: Cisco aironet 350 series driver/card not working

this solution did not work for me
once you run all those commands, are you then supposed to start up konquiror and see if you can go to a web page??

i got the same card as you

[smurgai]

Re: Cisco aironet 350 series driver/card not working

Sorry about that. I made a mistake. I did get it to work but at this point am not sure what combination of commands did it. I have been working on it for a few months, . figured it out, just not sure how. .

I just rebooted my machine and the wireless has stopped working again.

Will post once I am able to repeat it.

Sorabh.