I added a D-Link DWL 650 pcmcia wifi card to my Toshiba laptop running Linux 9 but when I try to activate it, I get:

"Cannot activate network device eth1!
pcnet_cs device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization."

I installed the latest drivers, "pcmcia-cs-3.2.7" but no luck. My eth0 cat5 network card works fine.

I try to "/etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart" but get this error message:

"Shutting down PCMCIA services: cardmgr moduleds: Device or resource busy"
"yenta_socket: Device or resource busy"
"pcmcia_core: Device or resource busy"
"Starting PCMCIA services: cardmgr."
"cardmgr[2021]: watching 2 sockets"

Any help would be appreciated.

pcnet_cs is the driver for NE2000-compatible PCMCIA network cards, so that is clearly not the driver you should be using.

The linux-wlan-ng project provides drivers for this card, but if your card is actually a DWL-650+ (note the trailing plus) you have an ACX100-based card which requires the drivers from the acx100 project (get the CVS version, the downloadable versions are very outdated).


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