[driverloader] Cisco 350 MiniPCI, WPA -- any success stories?

[Linuxant support (Jonathan)]

Hi,

yes, please try with older versions of the Windows XP driver to see if 
there is a difference. Even if they do not support WPA, you could try to 
see if you have the same problem with 'iwlist scanning' and report 
success/failure.

You could also try with previous versions of DriverLoader to see if 
there is a difference. You can obtain them at :

http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/full/archive/?C=N&O=D

Do not try with versions prior to 2.04 and these versions were not 
compatible with 2.6.8.1 kernels.

Again, please report success/failure.

Regards,


Jonathan
Technical specialist / Linuxant
www.linuxant.com
support at linuxant.com


Steven Ihde wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 09:23:51AM +0000, Linuxant support (Jonathan) wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>before you attempt to use WPA, please try with or without WEP to see if 
>>you are able to connect and use your wireless interface.
> 
> 
> I'm able to connect with no security or with WEP, but it seems flaky.
> If the first thing I do is execute dhclient, it works OK.  But after
> running dhclient, "iwlist wlan0 scanning" won't work (gives the same
> error message about "Operation not supported").  If I kill dhclient
> and restart it, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.  When things
> go bad I see numerous error messages of the form "driverloader:
> ndisSetInformation: 802_11_<whatever> st=<some error> ...".  Once this
> happens the driver seems never to recover.  Sometimes the interface
> will still transport data in this state (e.g., ping will still work).
> 
> It's still the case that the first "iwlist wlan0 scanning" works fine,
> and then it immediately stops working.
> 
> 
>>Since you have problems with the 'iwlist scanning' command, please try 
>>with different versions of the Windows XP driver to see if there is a 
>>difference.
> 
> 
> You mean, older versions? I don't think older versions of this driver
> support WPA.  Have you ever had a report of success with a ThinkPad
> T30 and a Cisco 350 MiniPCI?  What driver was used?
> 
> I have an ACPI kernel; could this contribute to the problem?  I
> juggled the interrupts around a little to get the wireless card on its
> own interrupt so it didn't have to share, but this made no difference
> that I could see.
> 
> 
>>If you require more assistance, please send at support at linuxant.com the 
>>output of 'dumpdiag'. Type the following in a root shell:
>>
>>---
>>dldrconfig --dumpdiag
>>---
>>
>>Just send us the generated file located in /tmp 
>>('driverloaderdiag.txt'). It'll help us solve the problem.
> 
> 
> Sent separately to avoid flooding the list.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve
>