[ILUG] Re: Aironet and Red Hat 7.2

[Paul Mc Auley]

Dave Wilson <dave.wilson at heanet.ie>  wrote:

| I've tried running the install from the Cisco CD, including grabbing the 
| source to pcmcia-cs-3.1.27 (the same one that comes by default with 
| RH7.2) and allowing it to recompile the driver. When I insert the card, 
| the airo.o driver is loaded but "iwconfig eth0" reports

The driver is part of the kernel...

| Warning : Device eth0 has been compiled with version 252
| of Wireless Extension, while we are using version 11.
| Some things may be broken...

| Any suggestions? I've tried not to break too many of the defaults 
| because google suggests that this should work perfectly well with RH7.2 
| by default (and hence, there's a dearth of instructions to fix it).

I just went through something similar. It worked but was acting up, so 
I used a clean (non Redhat) kernel tarball and rebuilt the kernel and 
modules from scratch.

And now all is well. On a related note, does anyone know where I could 
get linux compatible wireless gear within easy reach?
	Dublin