Re: an driver with cisco aironet mini-pci 350

On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 12:47:49PM -0400, Hudson Lee wrote:
> What I should have done before: opened up the laptop to get specific
> info on the card.
> 
> It is the Cisco Aironet MPI350
> Full Model #: AIR-MPI350-U58H004
> FCC ID: MCL U58H004
> 
> The grant of equipment authorization is issued to AMBIT microsystems,
> I don't know what AMBIT is but the card is definitly a cisco card.
> 
> After looking on the fcc's website I noticed that the grant date for
> the card was 04/18/2002. I think I understand why the driver doesn't
> work and why no one has heard of the card now.
> 
> So how does someone who can't fix it themselves go about asking
> (begging) others to add support?

The first step is probably getting a card into someone's hands.  I'd say
[email protected] would the best choice followed by Warner.  What
kind of laptop is this?  It might be possiable for a sufficently
motivated person to order one of these cards as spairs from the
manufacture.

> I don't know how different the mini-pci card is from the pci and
> pcmcia versions that work with the an driver. It could (In my dreams)
> be a simple matter of changing a few lines of code. Or the driver
> might need major changes. It's a new card and kind of obscure so that
> means the right person (driver author or someone smart) probably
> doesn't have one laying around to play with. This certanly makes
> supporting it harder...

I bet this is entierly new silicon or at least something we don't
support yet.  It's remotly possiable they use a PLX chip, but that
doesn't seem likely, especialy since it's got a brand new FCC ID.
I've put in a query to our Cisco rep about them, but there's a good
chance the answer won't be all the useful.

-- Brooks

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