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

[Fred Janon]

Hi Andrew,

Here is the log, but nothing gets added when inserting/removing the card. It didn't work before I added VirtualBox, so I don't think it causes the problem.

Fred

fred at fred-laptop:~$ sudo tail -f /var/log/dmesg
[   14.130396] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7
[   14.130854] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean.
[   14.131228] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7: clean.
[   14.131762] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
[   15.300455] psmouse serio2: ID: 10 00 64
[   17.022644] vboxdrv: Trying to deactivate the NMI watchdog permanently...
[   17.022649] vboxdrv: Successfully done.
[   17.022652] vboxdrv: Found 1 processor cores.
[   17.022813] vboxdrv: TSC mode is 'synchronous', kernel timer mode is 'normal'.
[   17.022816] vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 3.0.10 (interface 0x000e0001).

Fred

--- On Mon, 12/7/09, andrew <andrew.sharp at jcy.net> wrote:

From: andrew <andrew.sharp at jcy.net>
Subject: Re: [plug] How to add a WiFi PC card D-Link DWL-650+ to Ubuntu 9.10?
To: plug at plug.org.au
Date: Monday, December 7, 2009, 2:21 PM

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
> 

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