DSL will not acknowledge my wireless card.

MsDoomshroom · 04-18-2008, 07:10 PM

Hello.
I am running DSL from my hard drive on a Toshiba Tecra 730xcdt. I have a D-Link AirPlus G (DWL-G630) pcmcia card that I want to use with it for networking. I was not expecting this to be as easy as plugging it in and it working but I was hoping that DSL would at least acknowledge that a pcmcia device was present. When I plugg in this card I get nothing at all from what I can tell. Is this simply an incompatible device? Or am I doing something wrong?
Thank you for any suggestions anyone has to offer.

Brian1 · 04-18-2008, 07:23 PM

Seems to be multiple chipsets for that card. posting info from the command ' /sbin/lspci -v ' will help determine chipset. Also look in the HCL section of this forum to read abut the card model.

Brian

MsDoomshroom · 04-18-2008, 08:23 PM

when I try the command '/sbin/lspci -v' I get no such file or directory. I looked at HCL as you asked me to and found this model wireless card. I decided to try the "madwifi" drivers that are mentioned there.....
unfortunately the installation instructions they provide to not work for DSL I followed them to a "T" but there are missing commands ( make ) and some things that were mentioned to happen never did.(never asked if I wanted to remove existing modules)
When i run [dmesg] I see no evidence of a device connected
Thank you for your help Brian but I am still confused.

MsDoomshroom · 04-18-2008, 10:17 PM

I have been on search engines since my last post. My card is a dwl-g630 rev c and will work with Madwifi-NG.uci on DSL .
I can not figure out how to obtain that version of the madwifi driver. Google pops up two results and if I take any of the extension off I do not get anything relevant. So this is now the point where I am stuck.

MsDoomshroom · 04-19-2008, 10:46 AM

I have found the driver I believe but I cannot install it.
This is an issue that deserves it's own thread I think. Thank you again Brian for your help