aironet mpi350 - firmware detection

Doug Ambrisko ambrisko at ambrisko.com
Tue Jun 15 19:29:43 GMT 2004


Duane Winner writes:
| Is there a way to tell the firmware of a Cisco Aironet MPI350 miniPCI 
| card from within FreeBSD? In other words, I don't want to have to 
| install XP on this laptop, or move the card to a laptop with XP.

  a21p% ancontrol -I
  OUI:                    [ 00:40:96 ]
  Product number:         [ 7 ]
  Manufacturer name:      [ Cisco Systems                   ]
  Produce name:           [ 340 Series      ]
  Firmware version:       [ 5 ]
  OEM MAC address:        [ 00:40:96:32:81:14 ]
  Aironet MAC address:    [ 00:40:96:32:81:14 ]
  Radio type:             [ 802.11 DS ]
  Regulatory domain:      [ 0 ]
  Assigned CallID:        [ 00:00:00:00:00:00 ]
  Supported speeds:       [ 1.0Mbps 2.0Mbps 5.5Mbps 11.0Mbps ]
  RX Diversity:           [ antenna 1 and 2 ]
  TX Diversity:           [ antenna 1 and 2 ]
  Supported power levels: [ 1 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 ]
  Hardware revision:      [ 00:11 ]
  Software revision:      [ 05:02 ]
  Software subrevision:   [ 00:14 ]
  Interface revision:     [ 00:00 ]
  Bootblock revision:     [ 01:43 ]
  a21p% 

So in this case I'm running 5.02.20 (0x14 -> 20) which is okay for the
PCMCIA versus but not for the MPI cards.

Doug A.


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