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

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

Does the Netgear card say "Made in Taiwan" or "Made in China" on it? If
"Made in Taiwan" is what it says, you're probably on the right track in
figuring out what's wrong. If "Made in China" is what it says, the card
WILL NOT work in any Mac, period. You can then reserve the card for use
under Windows, and get yourself a WG511T in its place.

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 11:57:21 -0400, MJS wrote:

> 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.shtml).
> 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.