Re: Trouble with Cisco Airo MPI350 and kernel-2.6.1+

[Warren Togami]

Warren Togami wrote:
> Fabrice Bellet wrote:
>
> > Hi Warren,
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 07:48:57PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> >
> > > IBM Thinkpad T41
> > > Cisco Airo MPI350 802.11b Wireless
> > > PCIID: 0x14b9  0xa504
> > > Kernel: Fedora rawhide 2.6.1-1.57 (Based on 2.6.2-rc1)
> > >
> > > http://bellet.info/~bellet/laptop/t40.html#wireless
> > > http://bellet.info/~bellet/laptop/airo.c-2.6.1-mm2.diff
> > > airo.ko does not support this Airo device, but with the addition of 
> > > this patch it recognizes the device.
> [SNIP]
> Used the ACU tool under Windows XP for flashing the firmware.  The 
> newest firmware version that operates with your driver is:
> 5.00.03
>
> Perhaps mention within a comment and/or config Help of your patch that 
> the newest supported firmware is 5.00.03?  That would save people like 
> me a lot of time in the future...

Are these many errors normal?

[root@ibmlaptop etc]# iwconfig eth1
Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 16
of Wireless Extension, while this program is using version 15.
Some things may be broken...

eth1      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"apophis"  Nickname:"ibmlaptop"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412GHz  Access Point: 00:0C:41:75:D4:02
          Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   Sensitivity=0/0
          Retry limit:16   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:****-****-**   Security mode:open
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:30/0  Signal level:-70 dBm  Noise level:-98 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:59  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:1  Invalid misc:4900   Missed beacon:3

[root@ibmlaptop etc]# ifconfig eth1
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:8A:DF:50:FC
          inet addr:192.168.1.103  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::202:8aff:fedf:50fc/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:905 errors:655 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:655
          TX packets:699 errors:33 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:30 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:439321 (429.0 Kb)  TX bytes:118979 (116.1 Kb)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0x8000
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