Cisco Aironet Adapter on Linux? SOLVED ITSELF!

[Martin109]

I have a Cisco Aironet 802.11a/b/g Wireless Adapter, which fits into the slot at the side of this Compaq Evo N620c.

I believe that the Linux driver for this piece of hardware is airo_cs.o

I'm running Vector Linux 6.0 (linux 2.6.27.12, based on Slackware) on this machine, and the command 'locate airo_cs.o' brings up:

/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.12/drivers/net/wireless/.airo_cs.o.cmd

but if I try to execute it, I get 'Permission Denied' even as root.

At the moment, the Aironet adapter is not lighting up (it was fine when previously this machine was running Windoze XP).  Any ideas how to get it activated and the driver installed?  I am rather a newbie when it comes to Linux.

[Martin109]

Update:

I’m puzzled!  While I thought I was trying to set up a Netgear USB device instead, with ndiswrapper and a win98 driver, the command:

iwlist wlan0 s

has brought up this (I’m only showing the relevant cell entry):

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wlan0     Scan completed :
          Cell 03 - Address: 00:0F:B5:C4:02:FC
                    ESSID:"PlusNet Broadband Wireless"
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:11
                    Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
                    Quality=56/100  Signal level:-55 dBm  Noise level=-91 dBm
                    Encryption key:on
                    IE: WPA Version 1
                        Group Cipher : TKIP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 22 Mb/s
                              6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s
                              36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Extra:tsf=00000683d2006ca4
                    Extra: Last beacon: 3532ms ago

And it’s obviously the Cisco Aironet card that’s doing it!  There’s also a GUI Wireless Manager (Wicd) available on this system showing the same scan result in brief with the option to connect and, if I remove the Cisco Card, the list disappears; if I reconnect it and refresh, the list comes back.

This all looks good, but why can’t I get over the last stage and connect?  I’m using WPA, and have entered my WPA passphrase into the Wicd Manager connection protocol, but it’s not connecting, not obtaining an address.

Any ideas?

[Martin109]

Updated update!

It's now working after a system reboot!

[rusky]

I was just going to suggest turning it off then on again