pcmcia-card (netgear wg511t) causes computer to get extremly slow ...

[Louis Woods <louis@swissart.biz>]

Hi all,

I have installed my pcmcia-card (netgear wg511t) using "madwifi". I 
could make the wireless-connection work, however as soon as I insert the 
pcmcia card the system get's really slow as if the card is using up all 
of the memory. Interesting is that I have noticed this behaviour even 
before I have installed the madwifi driver, which lets me assume that it 
rather has something to do with the configuration of the pcmcia-cs 
package. I am using the following kernel:
2.6.8-2-386
In an earlier installation I used a 2.4-Kernel and didn't seem to have 
this problem. Should pcmcia-cs only be used with 2.4-Kernels?

This is what I get when I look into dmesg:

PCI: Enabling device 0000:03:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
Build date: Sep 24 2005
Debugging version (IEEE80211)
ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 
24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
ath0: turboG rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
ath0: H/W encryption support: WEP AES AES_CCM TKIP
ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 radio 4.6
ath0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BE traffic
ath0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic
ath0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
ath0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
ath0: Use hw queue 8 for CAB traffic
ath0: Use hw queue 9 for beacons
Debugging version (ATH)
ath0: Atheros 5212: mem=0x10800000, irq=10
ath0: no IPv6 routers present

This is my /etc/network/interfaces file:

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
name Ethernet LAN card

# The wireless network interface
auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp
       wireless-essid  LWSHOME
       wireless-enc    restricted
       wireless-key    CDKDB800C5F788CCCFF0C4200
       name Unknown interface type



Any idea where I should be looking for the problem. I am also happy to 
provide additional information to how my system is setup.

Thank you in advance.

Louis