Unable to get WG511 card to work with PCI-PCMCIA/CARDBUS bridge.

[MJS]

I have a Power Mac G4, a PCD-RP-101CS PCI-PCMCIA/CARDBUS
bridge(http://www.psism.com/pci_rear_reader.htm) and  a Netgear Wireless
WG511 card. The bridge uses the Ricoh R5C475II chipset.

 

I followed the instructions on the YDL site for installing a WG511
card(http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_4.0/netgear-wg511.s
html). I created a new device by choosing the Prism54 set as suggested. I
had expected that the Prism54 choice would be given, when I selected the new
device to be "WIRELESS connection", but it wasn't there. The only place I
was presented with the "Prism" option, was when I selected the creation of a
"ETHERNET connection" device, and I was presented with the choice "Intersil
ISL3890[Prism GT/Prism DUETTE](ETH1). I selected that. I then tried to
activate it. I get the message "cannot activate network device eth1. prism54
device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization".

 

Has anyone else had experience with using PCMCIA with a PCI bridge card on a
desktop cpu?

 

I would appreciate any thoughts, comments, etc on how to get this thing
working.

 

The results of doing a  "lspci -v" are below, between the lines of pluses.
The Ricoh bridge is recognized. Under the Intersil ISL3890, there is a
mention of Netgear being an unknown device.

 

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00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth AGP
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 16
        Capabilities: [80] AGP version 1.0

00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 PF/PRO AGP
4x TMDS (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Flags: bus master, stepping, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 255, IRQ
48
        Memory at 0000000094000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
        I/O ports at 802400 [size=256]
        Memory at 0000000090000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [50] AGP version 2.0
        Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 2

0001:10:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth PCI
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 16

0001:10:0d.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21154 (rev
05) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32
        Bus: primary=10, secondary=11, subordinate=15, sec-latency=32
        Memory behind bridge: 80000000-800fffff
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1

0001:11:03.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c475 (rev 80)
        Subsystem: CARRY Computer ENG. CO Ltd: Unknown device 0101
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 53
        Memory at 0000000080087000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
        Bus: primary=11, secondary=12, subordinate=15, sec-latency=176
        Memory window 0: 800a0000-800bf000 (prefetchable)
        Memory window 1: 800c0000-800df000
        I/O window 0: 00000000-00000003
        I/O window 1: 00000000-00000003
        16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

0001:11:07.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo Mac I/O (rev 02)
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 16
        Memory at 0000000080000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)

0001:11:08.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB (prog-if 10
[OHCI])
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 16, IRQ 27
        Memory at 0000000080083000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)

0001:11:09.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB (prog-if 10
[OHCI])
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 16, IRQ 28
        Memory at 0000000080082000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)

0001:11:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV23 IEEE-1394
Controller (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 16, IRQ 63
        Memory at 0000000080081000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
        Memory at 0000000080088000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 1

0001:12:00.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Intersil ISL3890
[Prism GT/Prism Duette] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Netgear: Unknown device 4800
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 80, IRQ 53
        Memory at 00000000800c0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1

0002:25:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth Internal PCI
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 16

0002:25:0f.0 Class ffff: Illegal Vendor ID: Unknown device ffff (rev ff)
(prog-if ff)
        !!! Unknown header type 7f
 

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Thanks,

 

MJS

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