Bug 40552

Summary:	Run-time configuration of Aironet 4800 not implemented
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Aleksey Nogin <aleksey>
Component:	kernel-pcmcia-cs	Assignee:	Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Aleksey Nogin 2001-05-14 14:11:12 UTC

RedHat 6.2 used airo_cs driver for Aironet 4800 cards. That driver
supported run-time configuration and monitoring through the /proc/aironet
directory.

RedHat 7.1 uses aironet4500_cs driver for the same cards. This driver does
not seem to put anything useful in /proc and does work with wireless-tools
(iwconfig says "no wireless extensions").

Is there a reason why RH7.1 uses aironet4500 instead of airo?

Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2001-05-14 14:15:36 UTC

The aironet4500_cs is the one that comes with the offical linux kernel tree.
However, we've included the airo_cs as backup driver in our kernel so you 
_can_ use it just fine. All you need to do is change /etc/pcmcia/config

I must say that I'm considering making the airo_cs the default for 4800, the
aironet4500_cs doesn't seem to work well with them. 

Could you try the other driver? If it works I'll change the default for newer
versions of the pcmcia packages.

Comment 2 Aleksey Nogin 2001-05-15 19:10:47 UTC

I tried airo_cs, seems to be working fine.

Comment 3 Arjan van de Ven 2001-05-15 19:15:09 UTC

Thanks for confirming this; I've modified the driver for the next
kernel-pcmcia-cs package we will build. I'm closing this as "fixed in rawhide"
as that is the closest thing to the truth.