I have been searching Google and these forums for a bit now and no one else's questions seem to be matching up with exactly what I'm experiencing.
Basically my PCMCIA wireless device does not even give me a light indicating it has power. With other Linux distros I have used in the past it at least has this light and all I have had to do is install the drivers using ndiswrapper -i.
-The device is a D-Link DWL-G630 'AirPlus' -The laptop itself is a Medion2010 (AMD 2200 XP-M) * And I'm pretty sure this is using a VIA chipset ... -I have confirmed the wireless device itself is functioning by plugging it into another laptop running Mepis and it operates fine
I'm crossing my fingers that this is a simple configuration error because I would still consider myself to be an intermediate Linux user ... so the more descriptive the better all you guru's
Thanks a ton in advance! - VelcanYou may want to take a look at the following thread. It is not the same card, but seems to be a similar problem. http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=6753Yea. I actually id run across that one in my searches. The only thing that was holding me up is that I am not getting any errors similar to their ...
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"request_firmware() failed for 'isl3890' " "could not upload firmware ('isl3890') "
Where would I see errors like they were getting? Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place.No, that other post is not relevant to you ... wrong driver - prism54 for PrismGT chipset.
It's all very confusing because D-Link sources chipsets from everywhere across their product range.
It seems that most G630's had the Atheros chipset, for which there is a dedicated Linux driver from the madwifi project. DSL has this driver - ath_pci.o. It looks like ndiswrapper will work for Atheros, too.
But there are some G630's, versions A and B apparently, which have the Texas Instruments chipset. There is a dedicated Linux driver for this from http://acx100.sourceforge.net but this driver is not in DSL. However, ndiswrapper apparently works.
Since your card is not being detected by DSL, there's a fair chance you have the TI-based version.
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