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Posted: April 15 2006,14:50 QUOTE
Greetings all.

I have a Toshiba Tecra 8000, PII 366 MHz, 128M.  DSL 2.1 and 2.3 boot and work fine, but I'm trying to get a wireless PCMCIA card working.  I currently use a D-Link DWL-G630 with madwifi.dsl on a Compaq M700, PIII 700MHz, 256M.  The M700 works fine using both DSL 2.1 and 2.3 (these use different kernels, different madwifi dsl extensions).  Neither combination works on the Toshiba, so I suspect it's a hardware issue as opposed to an extension issue.  Does anyone have any suggestions?  I'm not averse to buying another wifi card if I can find something that works.

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Posted: April 17 2006,01:35 QUOTE
In case anyone's interested, I found a solution. I set the Toshiba's BIOS for PCMCIA to 16-bit.  Madwifi still would not work, but ndiswrapper did.  So now I'm able to use the DWL-G630 on the Toshiba.  Why I have to use a 16-bit setting for a 32-bit card, I don't know.  But, it works and that's the goal.

To recap:  I have found that the D-Link DWL-G630, H/W Ver. C2 (Atheros chipset) works with DSL.   On a Compaq M700, I have to use madwifi, on the Toshiba Tecra 8000, I must use ndiswrapper.

Now I just have find out where to buy another one.
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Posted: April 17 2006,18:11 QUOTE
I had to do that with my 480CDT too, but I forgot about it because it never changes once it's set. I bought mine in ebay.

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