ok so i have a D-Link AirPlus (DWL-G630) PCMCIA card. This bad boy runs perfectly fine in windows. So i get ndiswrapper and load the drivers. ndiswrapper says drivers are fine and hardware is connected, then i modprobe and no errors. After i reboot i do iwconfig wlan0 and get some weird hardware errors, ill try to get a log soon but is there any reason for this?
help would be great, im new to wifi in linux

ok so i ran dmesg | less and i found the ndiswrapper messages...
apparently i have the incorrect driver (its not the 64 bit driver) for the card on the architecture
i am runign an AMD Athlon 64 4000+ with SLAMD64 so you can see my problem. The thing is i cant find the correct windows 64bit driver for this thing. anyone got any ideas?

Check the FAQ on the ndiswrapper site. If I remember correctly there are only one or two 64 bit card drivers (both from Broadcom I believe) that work.

ok sounds ..um good.
i was thinking about using madwifi, but again i still cant manage to get that to comile right. I use the target=x86_64-elf flag on make and its still giving me an error. any suggestions?

Well, without seeing the error you're getting, I'm not sure what could be going wrong with madwifi. I would also double check on the chipset in that thing. In doing a little googling, it looks as if the fine folks at D-Link may have used more than one chipset in the G630 series.

Thanks guys.

The potentially good news is that the other chipset they were using were from TI and worked with the acx111 linux drivers.

ok so i get madwifi installed (what do you konw, there was a pkg in /extra for it) and i modprobe ath_hal and still no ath0 device. no cardmgr available (slackware /) so im not sure how to check what was picked up, however the activity light in my card blinks once every minute or so so i know its connected right...any sggestions?

Do either iwconfig or ifconfig show the device?

iwconfig nor ifconfig show ath0 as a device

I guess I didn't state my question right........Does iwconfig show any card ?(ath0 or not) with wireless capability? Also, have you checked lsmod to make sure the madwifi drivers got loaded?

You also might just try issuing an ifconfig ath0 up command to see if that gets things going. I would also check your system logs to see if the card is leaving anything there when the madwifi modules are loaded.

I would also check to make sure this card is supported by madwifi. You haven't posted anything that indicates this card uses an Atheros chipset. Like I said eariler, it looks as if D-Link used more than one chipset in this card. There is info on the madwifi supported version here if you want to compare to yours.