Hi there. I am experiencing problems with my Cisco 350 wireless card and Redhat 9. Every time I pop in the PCMCIA card into my laptop when RH9 is running I heard only one beep. So I'm guessing that RH9 doesn't recongize my card. How do I fix that?
I tried the installation instructions that came with the card, but that didn't work (installation drivers were designed for RH7.1, does that matter?). Cisco's website didn't help much. Here's the LED status on the 350 card when I insert it into the laptop when RH9 is running:

Activity (orange): ON, Status(green): OFF

somtimes,

A: ON, S: ON

sometimes,

A: OFF, S: OFF

I'm running the laptop on dual boot so I know the wireless card works fine in WinXP, but RH9 is the one that doesn't even recongize the card. Any help/suggestion/advice is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Gigan
Dell Inspriation 8200
Intel P4 2.0 Ghz
512 MB RAM
40.0 GByte HD
Dual boot WinXp sp1 and RH9 (fresh install)
Cisco Arionet 350 (frimware *****20, latest ones)

What version of firmware do you have on your Aironet card?

Version newer than 5.x seem not to work at all. I dual boot, and just upgraded to the newest Windows driver, which, to my dismay, also updated the firmware. Looking at the release notes for the firmware, shows that it isn't supported by Linux.


Using a card with 4.x firmware, the card is recognized. I have a separate issue when trying to use WEP. The card associates fine with a wide-open access point, but I can't seem to use iwconfig to get it to speak to a WEP enabled access point.

If you are running firmware newer than 5.x you may wish to downgrade your firmware.

John

I downgraded the fireware to 4.x, and RH9 now recongize my card. Interestingly enough, now I have to figure out why it doesn't get onto my wireless network. I'll search the forums to find the answer. Thanks for you help JohnO, really appreciate it.

Gigan

OK I got the same sort of problem except I downgraded to the 4.xx firmware and the card worked right up till reboot. Now it will not work again I insert it and get the 1 high pitch beep tehn the low pitch beep. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I don't know if this helps, but this is exactly what I did to solve my issues with Arionet 350 card and Red Hat 9.

I downloaded the drivers from www.cisco.com, but instead of downloading the newest 5.xxx.20 drivers, I downloaded the 4.xx.30 (or something similar). After that, I used WinXp to update the firmware. After the update, I used ACU to check to make sure that the card had the proper drivers and it worked under WinXp.

Afterwords, I decided to reboot my laptop and did a fresh install of Red Hat 9. I removed all linux partitions, and did a personal/home install. (I decided that I wanted to make sure the card worked and I don't need the extra stuff for now). I had noticed that the card will not recognize under the installation process, so don't be alarmed if there aren't two beeps during installation. After installation was complete, the computer rebooted.

After the reboot, I selected to boot up Red Hat 9. I looked at the messages that was flashing through the screen and watched for the message on loading up eth0 (my RJ45 network). Afterwords it started to load up the PCMCIA device. This is where the 2 beeps should be. If it is a fresh install and the firmware is correct there shouldn't be any problems.

NOTE: I tried to use the driver CD that Cisco provided with the card for linux. Instead of recognizing the card, it made the system not recognize any wireless device. I probably installed the drivers wrong, but the lesson is that if it is a fresh install everything should work out perfectly.

SIDE Note: Instead of using Red Hat 9, cause I heard people are complaining about it, I tried out Suse 8.2 eval. So far everything works out fine with the Arionet 350 card and Suse 8.2. So when that distribution of linux comes out, you might was to try that out.

Hope that helps...

Gigan