I've sort-of got this thing working. I installed the Cisco tools from the website, the latest version. I'm told "iwconfig" doesn't work, and it appears so:

Typing "ifconfig" shows "eth1" apparently properly configured: it reads in the "HWaddr", MTU, packets, interrupts, etc.

Typing "iwconfig" shows "eth1" as well, saying 802.11-DS as the connection type, with ESSID always set to null (even if I use iwconfig to change it -- I presume this kind of thing is what the guy meant by not working). It also shows the frequency (2.417GHz), power, sensitivity, link quality, etc. It shows it as not connected.

I go into /opt/cisco/bin, and run "bcard" -- which is supposed to configure the card. It runs cleanly, but with no output.

I then try to run ACU, which tells me "No radio found", and promptly exits.

This probably has something to do with most "airo" drivers actually being PCMCIA cards, while mine is a mini-PCI card...any ideas anyone?

I have the Aironet 350 PCMCIA. When I iwconfig, I get eth1 and wifi0 as the devices. When attempting to run the acu tool, I get 'no radio found'.

I still haven't gotten this card to work yet!!

What am I doing wrong? Other people say that they just insert the card and it works....

I am running Mandrake 10.0
Kernel 2.6.3-7

All Help Appreciated!

Hello... I installed Mandrake 10.0 and i'm trying to use the Aironet 350 PCMCIA card. I installed the drivers from Cisco's website and their utilities... i get the same problem when i try and run the ACU utility, "No radio found". I've read on ciscos site that if you get the error it means that the drivers were not installed good so you have to run the install again, and they suggest 'sh ./cwinstall'. Now i'm really new to linux so i'm not sure what the difference between sh install (which i used) and sh ./cwinstall (they suggest). maybe this is just a file that didn't come with the package i downloaded.

I'm still having a problem getting this stuff to work so if anyone has any ideas i would love to hear them. Thanks for any help.

ps. sorry gbrethen and Asherian i don't have an answer so this post is not helpful to you

.:UPDATE:.
OK now i screwed something up because now the pcmcia doesn't reconize the cisco card anymore... well it shows that it's there BUT no power is going to the card and when i try and setup the drivers for it again it doesn't find the device. so i'm really confused now.