Wireless & CD problems.

[Ed Jabbour]

Two problems here on an IBM T30.  Running whatever the latest Ubuntu is.

1.  Network:  A Netgear WG511 PCMCIA card, Made in China v.3.  Took the 
driver off the Netgear CD (more on this below) , ran ndiswrapper and got 
nada.  Upon reinserting the card, dmesg|tail shows:
        17183869.344000 eth1: resetting device . . .
        17183869.396000 eth1: uploading firmware
        17183869.480000 eth1: firmware version: 1.0.4.3
        17183869.480000 eth1" firmware upload complete
        17183870.480000 eth1: no 'reset complete' IRQ seen - retrying
        17183871:480000 eth1: no 'reset complete' IRQ seen - retrying
        17183871:480000 eth1: interface reset failure
        17183871:480000 eth1: prism54: Your card/socket may be faulty, or IRQ
			 line too busy:(

The card works wo a hitch in Windoze 2K.

2.  CD drive:  This is very odd.  If I load a live CD of whatever sort, 
Kubuntu, Knoppix, etc., it comes up as a blank CD and won't mount.  Needless 
to say, they won't boot.  If I insert the Netgear CD, it mounts and can be 
read.  Same for the Scrabble game CD, and same for the bootable IBM Windoze 
recovery disc, which does boot.  So, any CD having to do with Windoze works; 
any CD having to do with Linux doesn't.

Any hints, pointers, guesses, greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

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