On Thursday 04 March 2004 02:05 pm, Mark Kirschner wrote: > Hi all. I've an opportunity to pick up a laptop with a wireless network > adapter (Cisco Aironet 350 PCMCIA card). > > I have been unsuccessful with getting this same card to work under > Mandrake 9.1, and the only help I've come across said to "downgrade" the > card firmware. Does anyone know if 9.2 supports this card, or if 10.0 will > when released? > > I'll admit, I've not yet delved into the prospect of researching hardware > requirements (between health issues, classwork and a job search, I've had > little time lately for research on the issue). > 10.0 supports this card as the airo_mpi driver maintained by Fabrice Bellet has been merged into the 2.6.3 kernel. 9.2 does not support it out of the box, but airo_mpi installs easily and works great.
It is required that the card firmware remain at an older version. I have not found this to be a problem at all, since I rarely use Windows. I just make sure I am using the Windows driver that matches the firmware. I think it is 5.00.03 of something close. More info here http://bellet.info/~bellet/laptop/ -- /g
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