I finally decided to take the plunge and try to get my wireless working. Figured I didn't want to be the only one without a post on wireless. Anyway I was able to get my pcmcia dlink dwl-G30, with the marvell w8300 chip, working using ndiswrapper and the windows driver from the cd I got with the card. Everything was working swimmingly. I had it starting at boot and had no problems the half dozen times I started without security enabled. I decided to get it working with wep, I know not the best, I was struggling and at one point went into system settings/network and picked on the wireless card and entered my wep key and that is when it all went south. It froze my machine and I had to kill it with the power button. I can't get to a usuable desktop with the card plugged in. Everything works fine if I don't plug the card in. At one point in the recovery mode I got an extra entry (wlan0:ava) from ifconfig. found out this was from the avahi-daemon. Tried disabling through the /etc/defaults/avahi-daemon file and even moved the avahi-daemon script out of /etc/init.d/. In both cases nothing changed. I am guessing that the system settings network installed another driver for the card? Maybe I need to blacklist a driver? I know something is now loaded and trying to run that card, because I can turn off the ndiswrapper and the card will still light up during boot. Before the card would be dead until I ran sudo modprobe ndiswrapper if I didn't have ndiswrapper in /etc/modules. I did lsmod, but didn't see anything. Any suggestions?
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