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Certain (more recent) [http://bellet.info/laptop/airo_mpi.HOWTO.txt firmwares] do not work with the airo driver. Evidently there is a Windows tool where you can modify the firmware, but if you've already nuked your win32 partition like I have, you'll be in a pickle. There also have been reports that the Window driver auto-magically updates the firmware, so if you dual boot between operating systems one day your Wireless under the Linux kernel may stop working. Get firmware information from  {{path|/proc/driver/aironet/eth1/Status}}
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Certain (more recent) [http://bellet.info/laptop/airo_mpi.HOWTO.txt firmwares] might not work with the airo driver. Evidently there is a Windows tool where you can modify the firmware, but if you've already nuked your win32 partition like I have, you'll be in a pickle. There also have been reports that the Window driver auto-magically updates the firmware, so if you dual boot between operating systems one day your Wireless under the Linux kernel may stop working. Get firmware information from  {{path|/proc/driver/aironet/eth1/Status}}
  
 
=== ThinkPad's this card may be found in ===
 
=== ThinkPad's this card may be found in ===

Revision as of 06:28, 10 August 2005

Cisco Aironet Wireless 802.11b

This is a Mini-PCI WiFi Adapter that is installed in a Mini-PCI slot.

Features

  • Chipset: Cisco
  • IEEE Standards: 802.11b
  • PCI ID: 14b9:a504

Mini-PCI WiFi Adapter

IBM Partnumbers

IBM Order PN (WW): 31P8301
IBM Order PN (Japan): 31P8302
IBM Order PN (EMEA): 31P8303
IBM Order PN (China): 31P8304
IBM FRU PN (WW): 26P8319, 26P8435, 26P8496
IBM FRU PN (Japan): 26P8323, 26P8369, 26P8500
IBM FRU PN (EMEA): 26P8321, 26P8367, 26P8498
IBM FRU PN (China): 26P8325, 26P8371, 26P8502
Other IBM FRU PN: 91P7406,91P7408,91P7410,26P7412

Also known (in IBM literature) as....

  • Cisco Aironet Wireless 802.11b Mini PCI
  • 802.11b Cisco Wireless Card (Sherman III)

Linux WiFi driver

A opensource Linux 'airo' driver is available, and included in recent 2.6 kernels.
There is a sourceforge project page for this driver, but it seems unmaintained.
One of the developers has his own project page here, but there have not been any updates since September 2004.

In addition there is a slightly dated driver available from Cisco after jumping through a bunch of hoops, such as providing Cisco with your personal information.
The current Cisco driver version is 2.1 and only supports select Linux 2.4 kernels.

Known problems

Certain (more recent) firmwares might not work with the airo driver. Evidently there is a Windows tool where you can modify the firmware, but if you've already nuked your win32 partition like I have, you'll be in a pickle. There also have been reports that the Window driver auto-magically updates the firmware, so if you dual boot between operating systems one day your Wireless under the Linux kernel may stop working. Get firmware information from /proc/driver/aironet/eth1/Status

ThinkPad's this card may be found in

External Sources

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