[Wirelessdriver-support] WirelessDriver not loading on new wireless card

[Chris T. <cl...@an...>]

Hi. I upgraded to a new wireless card, and it's not being identified by the 
wireless driver. Any suggestions?

Machine: PowerBook Lombard  OS 10.1.5 / 5S66
         PowerLogix G4 Upgrade Card

Old Wireless Card: Lucent Wavelan Silver 2Mbps (February 2000)
                   This card worked fine with the above configuration.

New Wireless Card: Netgear MA401

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Symptoms: The preferences pane acts as though no card is inserted.
          The Console contains dozens of lines of this:
      2002-09-14 14:46:08.211 System Preferences[236] Iterations: 0
      WirelessDriver: Couldn't find a WirelessDriver service in registry - 
is the card loaded?

The Link light is illuminated, though I have not yet had access to another 
machine to verify that the card is not broken.

It is not an issue with the device ordering in the Network preference pane.
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Test Script Results:

### system info

ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.1.5
BuildVersion:   5S66
Darwin localhost 5.5 Darwin Kernel Version 5.5: Thu May 30 14:51:26 PDT 
2002; root:xnu/xnu-201.42.3.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC  Power Macintosh powerpc
ppc7400

### wireless driver files installed

drwxrwxrwx    3 root  wheel   264 Mar 20 12:45 WirelessDriver.kext
drwxr-xr-x    3 root  wheel   264 Jan 25  2002 IOPCCardFamily.kext
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  admin  264 Mar 20 12:46 WirelessDriver PPane.prefPane
    {Path = "/Library/PreferencePanes/WirelessDriver PPane.prefPane/"; },

### wirelesscard info

    | |             "VersionOneInfo" = ("NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless 
PC","Card","I$
    | |       +-o pccardb,7300@0,0  <class IOPCCard16Device>
    | |             "IOName" = "pccardb,7300"

### network info

lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,b6,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        ether 00:50:e4:d0:8e:09
        media: autoselect (none) status: inactive
        supported media: none autoselect 10baseT/UTP <half-duplex> 
10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 100baseTX <half-duplex> 100baseTX <full-duplex>

### wd command line tool status

2002-09-14 14:51:49.357 WirelessConfig[299] Iterations: 0
WirelessDriver: Couldn't find a WirelessDriver service in registry - is the 
card loaded?
Usage - WirelessConfig [-showstatus] or WirelessConfig [-showstatus] 
<-netname <network>> [-wepkey <key>] [-keyslot <slot>]
 -netname <name>     Sets the network name - enclose in double quotes
                      if your network contains a space.

 -wepkey <hex key>   Sets your network key, if ommited the network is
                      assumed to not have wep.

 -keyslot <[1-4]>    Sets which keyslot to have your key in. If
                      ommited keyslot 1 is assumed.

 -status             Prints out the network information, includes
                      signal strength.

 -writeprefs         Writes out the options to the preference file in 
~/Library/Preferences/org.noncontinuous.wirelessdriver

With no options set or just the status, WirelessConfig will look for the 
preferences made by the preference pane in 
~/Library/Preferences/org.noncontinuous.WirelessDriver.
logout

[Process completed]
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I tried to browse the archives of this list, but the web link seemed to be 
broken, so I apologize if this question has already been answered over 
there.

Thank you very much for any help you can provide.

~Chris