On January 11, 2006 12:16 pm, Jeff Bradberry wrote: > Hello, > > I'm currently working on configuring my wireless card for my laptop and > have tripped across a difficulty with my pcmcia configuration. This is a > HP Pavilion zv6000 laptop and a D-Link DWL-G630 wireless card. The > wireless card has an Atheros chipset supported by the madwifi project, and > I have already gotten it working; this is not the issue. The problem is > that unless I have the card in during boot, I must manually do 'cardctl > insert' to get it to be detected properly. Otherwise, it fails to do > anything. > > murasaki:/home/jrb# cardctl ident > Socket 0: > no product info available > murasaki:/home/jrb# cardctl insert > murasaki:/home/jrb# cardctl ident > Socket 0: > product info: "Atheros Communications, Inc.", "AR5001-0000-0000", > "Wireless LAN Reference Card", "00" manfid: 0x0271, 0x0012 > function: 6 (network) > > As I said, I have managed to get the card working; this problem is > annoying but not critical. I would appreciate any advice that people can > provide to get this fixed. Thanks. > > ii linux-source-2.6.12 2.6.12-10 > Linux kernel source for version 2.6.12 with > ii pcmcia-cs 3.2.8-5.2 > PCMCI A Card Services for Linux > ii madwifi-source 0.svn20051110-1 > sourc e for the Multiband Atheros Driver for Hey, I have the same card (but haven't used under Debian yet), and seems okay. Do you have discover or hotplug installed? Make sure pcmcia is starting at boot, seems odd to me. Try posting dmesg|tail after inserting the card and after running cardctl insert. MJD
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