After upgrading some 1100 and 1200 Cisco APs to 802.11g, I have some Cisco MPI350 cards lying around. I'm trying to find out if the cards will only work in APs or if they'll work in other devices (like Soekris boxes and laptops running Windows), but I'm not having much luck.
My Soekris boxes are not currently available for testing, and the only laptops I have that can take MiniPCI cards are still under warranty. Most of the info I've found on the web (most of the info was from this mailing list) describes the problems people have getting the MPI350 cards in laptops working with Linux. I can't nail down whether the cards in the APs are essentially the same as the OEM cards sold to laptop vendors. I did want to summarize a few of the things that I found in case others run into this situation. Message on this list from Aug 2002: http://lists.bawug.org/pipermail/wireless/2002-August/008091.html Ben Hockenulll writes "Anyone have a source for the Cisco MiniPCI client adapters? The ones they sell on CCO are Special and Different MiniPCI cards intended only for use with the AP1200s, from what I understand. And cisco claims that they only sell the actual client adapter cards OEM and for whatever reason won't sell them to end users." Perhaps Ben is referring to the 802.11g cards? Cisco's MPI350 FAQ: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/wireless/ps458/products_qanda_item091 86a00801b3301.shtml MPI350 data sheet: http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/witc/ao350ap/prodlit/rwsry_in.htm BAWUG photo: http://www.bawug.org/images/equipment/cisco_aironet/air-mpi350.jpg Linux support on an IBM ThinkPad T40p: http://www.thunk.org/tytso/linux/t40.html Cheers, Jason -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
