Wireless pcmcia setup
 

I have a Compaq Presario 1270 laptop. I have installed Redhat 9. All works successfully except that I am unable to get my wireless pcmcia card to work. The card is a Cisco Aironet 350 series. The card works successfully on my Win2000 laptop.

Based on searches in the forums so far I have done some checking to see how Redhat configured the system during install. The pcmcia card gives a high and low beep during startup and the status and activity lights on the card glow steadily.

In the system log file I find the following:

: airo: Probing for PCI adapters
: airo: Finished probing for PCI adapters
: airo: Max tries exceeded waiting for command
: airo: MAC could not be enable



When I try the Ifconfig command I get "command not found" message

When I use the GUI interface Network Configuaration tool to activate the airo_cs device I get the following:
"Cannot activate network device eht1" and
"airo_cs device eth1 does not seem to be present , delaying initialization."

I am very new to Linux and am just trying to set up an old laptop to experiment.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Maybe you should start with the cisco website where they have not only drivers for the card but a complete linux howto?

airo-linux.sourceforge.net