Hello all

I have RedHat Linux 8.0 running on my ibm thinkpad t22 laptop. Unfortuantely I cannot get my Cisco Aironet 350 Series wireless card working. When I go to System Setting and Network, and try to activate the entry eth1, I get the Warning: Cannot activate network device eth1. When I go to the shell and enter

# ifconfig eth1 up
eth1: unknown interface: No such device
# ifconfig eth1
eth1: error fetching interface information: Device not found

Does anyone have an idea how I can get this working, or where to look for further help?

Thanks a lot

Have you tried lsmod ? Does it look like kernel modules needed to support your card are inserted? I can't remember which module you need, but if you do
ls -lR /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/ | less
you should be able to find something with cisco in it's name...
(yes, I know you could do | grep cisco instead of less, but then you might miss something like "airo350.o")

Thank you for the reply! I tried as you instructed me:

I did lsmod with the wireless card inserted. I get the two entries:

airo_cs 4900 0 (unused)
airo 49672 0 [airo_cs]
...

without the card inserted, these two entries do not appear.

I tried ls -lR /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/ | less , and got the following entries, which I think might be of interest:


c/linux-2.4.20-28.8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 10 14:51 CiscoVPN
...
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 10 13:50 pcmcia


/lib/modules/2.4.20-28.8/CiscoVPN:
total 360
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 361434 Jan 10 14:51 cisco_ipsec


/lib/modules/2.4.20-28.8/kernel/drivers/char:
...
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 10 13:50 pcmcia
...

.20-28.8/kernel/drivers/net:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14720 Dec 18 19:03 aironet4500_card.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79340 Dec 18 19:03 aironet4500_core.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80592 Dec 18 19:03 aironet4500_proc.o
...
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 10 13:50 pcmcia
...

Does that tell you anything? Do I need to load some modules?

Thank you in advance.