On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 11:11:25 -0500, Rick Bilonick <rab@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When you say firmware for the card, do you mean you have to install > code into the card? (I've heard of updating firmware in certain types of > hardware.) I was thinking of buying a DWL G650 to increase the > connection speed. > I was reading yesterday (though I can't find the link right now) that modern wlan cards expect the driver to load their firmware for them on startup, there is RAM set aside on the cards for this. Apparently it is to reduce problems with firmware/driver mismatches and problems with out of date firmware. With regard to your earlier problems - did you definitely have the pcmcia-cs service running? I know there was a big change with how pcmcia-cs works with 2.6 kernels rather than 2.4 kernels (in 2.4 the drivers came with the pcmcia-cs package, in 2.6 the drivers come with the kernel package - I think). Rob
