Networking :: Wifi Card Woes

What matters, from a driver perspective, is the kernel. DSL has been using the same kernel for as long as I can remember. 2.4.26. It isn't polite to say things like that about people who've been here awhile, Mr 1 post. However, sometimes little, seemingly benign changes do break stuff, that's why I said I "don't think" that would change.

It's good that you eventually got your card to work. Maybe your PCMCIA card doesn't have good drivers for the 2.4 kernel? I know you got the Xircom card working, but sometimes faulty drivers can work for some uses and not others, or some cards and not others. At least, that's the only thing I can think of, since that card works fine for me (and others) out of the box, and you've tried so many PCMCIA cards that didn't work.

You'll also notice that you will often experience problems with 2.4 kernels (like in DSL) that you won't in 2.6 kernels (like in almost every other distro under the sun).

I also cannot get Netgear WG511T to work in DSL 3.3. It works fine with Ubuntu, so it is not a hardware/bios issue.

The PCMCIA tool from Control Panel identifies it as an Atheros card.

I ran Wlanconfig from Control panel. I entered my sid and accepted the defaults (they look correct to me).

It does not appear to be doing anything. The card has two lights that flash on/off alternating when it is trying to connect. Both light flash together on/off when connected. Now, the left light is on, the right one is off.

Any ideas?

Did you run netcardconfig after (or ifconfig/route/etc commands) to configure your connection?

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