Re: an driver with cisco aironet mini-pci 350

On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 14:04, Brooks Davis wrote:
> 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.

Let me know what you need, and I'll see what documentation I can
provide.

Joe

> 
> -- Brooks
> 
> -- 
> Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE.
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