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PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:23 am    Post subject: PCMCIA Wlan Card Problems Reply with quote

Okay so I have a Dlink DWL-G630 PCMCIA Card (Hardware: D1, Firmware: 4.10). First I attempted to get the card working by using ndiswrapper. I tried loading the d-link driver and assigning it to PCI id 168c:001a. I then rebooted only to find no wireless devices under iwconfig. I then removed the driver from ndiswrapper tried a 3rd party Atheros driver which seemed to automatically assign itself to the same PCI id. I then rebooted but with no success. I then removed the 3rd party driver from ndiswrapper and installed madwifi, went 'modprobe ath_pci' only to have it tell me that there was no such module. I then recompiled my kernel, but to no avail on the modprobe front. I have retried the ndiswrapper drivers two or three times now. I must be missing something in the process for gentoo. Can anybody help me?
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

do you see anything happening when inserting the card in the slot? (led or try checking the dmesg).
Make sure you have built in the kernel or as a module, the following:

Bus options (Pci etc.) --->
[*] PCI support
PCCARD (PCMCIA/CardBus) support --->
<*> PCCard (PCMCIA/CardBus) support
<*> 16-bit PCMCIA support
--- PC-card bridges
<*> CardBus yenta-compatible bridge support
<M> Cirrus PD6729 compatible bridge support
<M> i82092 compatible bridge support
For me it is yenta that does the work.So I chose to build it in the kernel or else as a module you have to "modprobe yenta_socket"
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