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Posted: Jan. 05 2006,10:28 QUOTE
Not sure if this helps. I had the same problem when I moved from DSL 1.5 to DSL 2.0 using a Netgear MA401 wireless card on a Dell Latitude Cpt 233Mhz. The MA401 was not detected as a wifi device. I had given up on wireless on this PC as I was more than happy with DSL in all other respects. Anyway to cut a long story short the laptop died irrecoverably but I have aquired a Dell Latitude cpi 400Mhz laptop. I moved the hard drive over as I use a hard drive install of DSL, it booted straight into DSL and has detected the MA401 flawlessly since.
Anyway just wanted to add my tuppence worth.
Thanks to all as in my opinion DSL on slow hardware is just the business.
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Posted: Jan. 05 2006,19:05 QUOTE
Hmm..

Maybe the problem is with the PCMCIA control drivers and services and not with the Wireless card drivers.

Your newer Dell laptop might use a different ACPI system or PCMCIA controller that plays nice with DSL 2.0
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Shawn
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Posted: Jan. 17 2006,00:58 QUOTE
This may very well be my problem.  I'm trying to breathe new life into an old IBM Thinkpad 365XD with DSL.  I've also got a Netgear MA-401, which I understand is supposed to work "out of the box" (so to speak).

Unfortunately, I do not have a good way of getting output from the laptop to my main machine (for posting here) without a network connection.

What should I be looking for in the way of troubleshooting any potential PCMCIA issues?
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Posted: Jan. 17 2006,04:19 QUOTE
Unfortunately, my troubleshooting experience with PCMCIA is very limited because I do not own a laptop.

I would try to search google for your laptop model and "linux" or "linux pcmcia" and hope there is help.
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Posted: Jan. 25 2006,08:59 QUOTE
try release dsl 2.2 (rc1)

with kernel 2.4.26 everything should work

good luck
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