[c-nsp] Cisco 2821 and HWIC-1FE

[Bernd Ueberbacher]

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
>>
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