Ahhhh, so an ED does the trick :-) I was just a bit scared about this "brute force" mechanism described in the forum post.
THANKS! Bernd PS: Cute again! *G* Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) wrote: > Bernd, > > 12.4(11)XJ is actually a "newer" version than 12.4(16). 12.4XJ is based > on a 12.4T release, so it has newer features compared to 12.4 mainline. > So you don't downgrade, you rather upgrade. 12.4(15)T also support those > new HWICs. > > oli > > Bernd Ueberbacher <> wrote on Monday, July 23, 2007 10:26 AM: > > >> Hi there! >> >> As discussed here some time ago, I needed a third routed interface for >> my 2821 and today I got this cute HWIC-1FE. Installed it, booted >> (12.4(16)) and got a "GT96K_FEWAN-1-UNKNOWN_WIC: NM slot 0, wic card >> has an unknown id 53A". The module was no longer cute to me and I >> googled some time till I found this post in the Cisco forums: >> >> [quote] >> I'll answer my own question here: >> >> I didn't receive any feedback from the community that directly helped >> me solve my issue. And I don't have any kind of support from Cisco >> for this device. So after searching everywhere without luck for a >> solution (message boards, lists, web etc etc), I used the brute-force >> method. I tried about 10 different versions of IOS until I found one >> that worked. I don't know why this older version worked, but it did. >> >> Version 12.4(11)XJ >> >> So if you have a 2811 and you need to get an HWIC-1FE card working, >> use that IOS. >> >> show diag now shows it recognized: >> >> WIC Slot 2: >> 1 Port FE HWIC >> Hardware Revision : 2.0 >> [/quote] >> >> >> I haven't tried it yet, but is DOWNGRADING really the only way to get >> this module to work?? >> >> >> Thanks and have a nice day, >> Bernd >> >> _______________________________________________ >> cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp >> archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ >> _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
