[plug] How to add a WiFi PC card D-Link DWL-650+ to Ubuntu 9.10?

[andrew]

Fred,
Have you tried tailing dmesg  while you plug in the card / remove it to 
see what, if anything, it says?

If you aren't familiar with dmesg it's kinda like the kernel log.

If you get into a terminal session and type:

sudo tail -f /var/log/dmesg

it should display the last bit of the log and then it'll show you new 
info as it's written as you plug in / remove the card.

- Andrew

Fred Janon wrote:
> I just installed Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop 32-bit i386 on an IBM Thinkpad 
> T40. I have a PCMCIA card from D-Link, a WiFi DWF-650+ in the laptop 
> but it's not recognized at all. No LDE on the card and nothing in the 
> system that indicates that the card is there. The card works fine when 
> I boot Windows. I did a couple of searches on the Net, but nothing 
> conclusive came up. Any idea of how I should investigate?
>
> Thanks
>
> Fred
>