Using Cisco's Aironet 350 with Zoom IG-4165

[Jurrie Overgoor]

Hello,

I'm currently in the process of getting a RH 7.3 Linux box to communicate with 
a Zoom IG-4165 access point. The box is fitted with a Texas Instruments PCI1410 
Pc card Cardbus Controller and a Cisco Aironet 350 pcmcia card. I don't have 
that much expirience with wireless stuff, but I think I'm only one step away 
from communication...

I didn't use the Linux driver disk that came with the pcmcia card, because the 
modules are already included in the RH 7.3 distibution. I did however install 
the wireless tools (iwconfig, iwlist, iwspy, etc.) using an RPM. The Cisco 
utillities are not of any use to me, because I don't run X, I only use console 
mode.

The card is inserted with `cardctl insert 0`, and then recognised. The module 
airo_cs is loaded, and an attempt is made to get an ip adres from the dhcp 
server in the access point. The problem lies there: the client doesn't recieve 
a response.

On the other hand, I do think the card is correctly set-up, 
because /proc/driver/aironet/eth0/* gives me real-time information, like the 
signal strength...

I know the card will work with the access point, because an other computer 
running Windoze doesn't have problems.

So, does anyone have a clue what I should change in order to get this stuff 
working? I tried fidling with the /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts script, and made 
a /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 script myself... I don't think the 
problem lies there though...

Please reply directly to me, as I'm not able to subscribe to the mailing list.

   --
   Greetz -- Jurrie
   j.m.overgoor at student.utwente.nl