Help with Cisco Aironet 350 series

[Martin Pot]

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Kanthi C.N wrote:

> I am really sorry if this question has been asked and answered before. I
> could not find it in the archives.
>
> I am using Cisco Aironet 350 series card on Linux 2.4.20-8 ( Redhat 9 )
>
> I downloaded the driver from Cisco site
>
....
>
> But, somehow "iwconfig" doesn't recognize the card as wireless.
....

I've found that the Cisco drivers do not support wireless extensions.

You're much better off using the linux kernel driver for your card ("airo"
for PCI/ISA cards, and "airo_cs" for PCMCIA cards).

This driver provides support for wireless extensions, as well as
supporting the Cisco proprietary API, so you can use wireless extensions
and the Cisco utilities to configure the card.

For more info on using the airo kernel driver, refer to
http://martybugs.net/wireless/aironet4800.cgi

Cheers,
Martin.