On Fri, 21 May 2004 02:05:06 +0000, Adam McNutt wrote:
>I'm going to guess and say that the Cisco 342 isn't compatible with the
>Cisco 340 driver. I have a ThinkPad T21, and my Cisco 340 works great
>after installing the driver. I did go buy an IBM High Speed card,
>though, as I want to use the utility, should I ever find it, for
>changing configurations. I also have a Dell TrueMobile (same as an
>Orinoco Gold) and a Linksys WPC11 versions 2.5 and 4. I have gotten the
>best signal strength out of the orinoco cards (my Dell and IBM cards).
>
>Hope that helps...
>
>Adam McNutt
>
>PS...where DO I get the IBM utility to change things around?
PMFJI but the Cisco 342 is part of the 340 Series family and does in fact work with the
340 drivers. I have one, my first, which works well with the driver. IIRC the series step up
in added features of security. It has been awhile but info is available on Cisco's site.
HTH
David
>Julian Thomas wrote:
>
>>I took the plunge to set up a wireless capability (most of the house is on
>>a wired network but I wanted to be able to use a thinkpad T23 untethered).
>>I have a Dlink DWL700AP access point and the Cisco 342 pc card. Needless
>>to say, it's all working smoothly under Win2k.
>>
>>eCS is a different story. It wouldn't work, so I installed the latest
>>cardbus drivers from the eCS website. They work - at least I can use a pc
>>card modem and a cf adapter and read the cf card. However, the wifi is
>>still not working under eCS (yet).
>>
>>Situation is that I have a wired NIC in the machine - assigned to Lan0
>>[since it was the first one there] using dhcp. I installed the cisco
>>drivers from the file that I found on hobbes, and verified that the ssid
>>matches that in the WAP (I'm not using any WEP for now; not concerned due
>>to an extremely rural location - it's too far even for drive-by access).
>>I get an amber activity light on the cisco, but no green status indicator.
>>
>>LANTRAN.LOG shows:
>>
>>FFST/2 is installed but is not started. LANMSGDD is loaded and
>>operational.
>>
>>Netstat shows the adapter, as does PC Card director [what a kludgy
>>interface!]
>>
>>TCPIP config won't allow me to set it to DHCP (that may be because I had
>>LAN0 set to use DHCP).
>>
>>What should I try next?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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