Re: Cisco Aironet MPI350: dualboot
"Jake Khuon" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile |
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### On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 23:19:03 -0500, Duane Winner <[email protected]> ### casually decided to expound upon freebsd-mobile ### <[email protected]> the following thoughts about "Cisco Aironet ### MPI350: dualboot": DW> But now, unfortunately, I'm in a situation where I need to configure DW> some laptops with dualboot (XP & FreeBSD). I think what I've discovered DW> is that while the old firmware must be used for FreeBSD/Linux, the cisco DW> adapter won't work under XP unless the firmware is upgraded, thus I DW> think I'm looking at a conflict of interests here. DW> (summary: it seems that if I upgrade the firmware to the latest version, DW> wireless in xp will work, but when I activate 'an0' in freebsd and run DW> dhclient, my t30 seizes. Conversely, if i downgrade the firmware, DW> freebsd works, but then XP can't negotiate a dhcp address.) I'm running the older firmware (5.00.01) on my card. In order to make it work in Windows, you need to install NDIS driver version 2.2.2 instead of the newer Windows NDIS drivers. You should then be able to dual-boot fine. Here's the procedure I used: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2003-December/002525.html -- /*===================[ Jake Khuon <[email protected]> ]======================+ | Packet Plumber, Network Engineers /| / [~ [~ |) | | --------------- | | for Effective Bandwidth Utilisation / |/ [_ [_ |) |_| N E T W O R K S | +=========================================================================*/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"