I had this happen once exactly as you describe but, the root cause was the card slot reciever got bent/damaged.
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Browse All TopicsRecently my Linksys WPC54GS VER 2.1 (Broadcom 4318 chipset) stopped working. Power light comes on but is not regonized by the system. I am running kubuntu Hardy with all the latest patches. I have tried both the NDISWRAPPER ver. 1.52 and the cutter to no avail. The only thing that I can think is that I recieved a kernel upgrade.
my outputs of lspci, lspci | grep Broadcom\ Corporation, and lspcmcia are below in the code snippet
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by: MicheleMarconPosted on 2008-05-13 at 22:53:58ID: 21561544
Try with this:
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