D-link Dcf-660w With R198, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn' Options

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I'm having a hard time trying to figure out what's wrong with my card, hope you can help me.

I have a SL-C1000 with r198 installed and Meanie's SP4 applied.
I define all the network settings before plugging in the card as wlan0.

when I plug it in, it connects fine for some 30 seconds and then disconnects. from that point, nothing makes sense to me.

sometimes it shows up with lspcmcia/pccardctl, sometimes it doesn't.

many times, the screen turns white until I unplug the card.

lsmod shows that orinoco, orinoco_cs, hermes, hostap_cs, hostap all are loaded.

in /sys/bus/pcmcia/drivers, there are hostap, ide_cs and orinoco subfolders.

there are only three files in /etc/pcmcia/ shouldn't there be a lot of .opts files there?

Here's a part of my dmesg after pluggind the card

CODE

pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
hostap_cs: 0.4.4-kernel (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>)
hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (constant)
hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (from config)
Checking CFTABLE_ENTRY 0x01 (default 0x01)
IO window settings: cfg->io.nwin=1 dflt.io.nwin=1
io->flags = 0x0046, io.base=0x0000, len=64
hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wifi0
hostap_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 137, io 0xc4820000-0xc482003f
prism2: wifi0: operating mode changed 3 -> 2
prism2_hw_init: initialized in 320 ms
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd: entry still in list? (entry=c1cdb3a0, type=0, res=0)
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd: command was not completed (res=0, entry=c1cdb3a0, type=0, cmd=0x0121, param0=0xfc00, EVSTAT=8000 INTEN=0010)
wifi0: hfa384x_set_rid: CMDCODE_ACCESS_WRITE failed (res=-110, rid=fc00, len=2)
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'
wifi0: NIC: id=0x800c v1.0.0
wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.1
wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.7.4
wifi0: registered netdevice wlan0
wifi0: LinkStatus=1 (Connected)
wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:80:5a:31:7b:9b
orinoco 0.15rc3 (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, et al)
orinoco_cs 0.15rc3 (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, et al)
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wifi0: link becomes ready
wifi0: invalid skb->cb magic (0x00000000, expected 0xf08a36a2)
wifi0: invalid skb->cb magic (0x00000000, expected 0xf08a36a2)
wifi0: invalid skb->cb magic (0x00000000, expected 0xf08a36a2)
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd_issue: cmd reg was busy for 5 usec
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd: entry still in list? (entry=c1cdbae0, type=0, res=0)
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd: command was not completed (res=0, entry=c1cdbae0, type=0, cmd=0x0021, param0=0xfd51, EVSTAT=8888 INTEN=8888)
wifi0: hfa384x_get_rid: CMDCODE_ACCESS failed (res=-110, rid=fd51, len=6)
pccard: card ejected from slot 0
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd: entry still in list? (entry=c1cdbae0, type=0, res=0)
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd: command was not completed (res=0, entry=c1cdbae0, type=0, cmd=0x0021, param0=0xfd51, EVSTAT=8888 INTEN=8888)
wifi0: hfa384x_get_rid: CMDCODE_ACCESS failed (res=-110, rid=fd51, len=6)
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd: entry still in list? (entry=c3e5b520, type=0, res=0)
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd: command was not completed (res=0, entry=c3e5b520, type=0, cmd=0x0002, param0=0x0000, EVSTAT=8888 INTEN=8888)
hostap_cs: Shutdown failed
wifi0: removed pending cmd_queue entry (type=1, cmd=0x0011, param0=0xf100)
wifi0: removed pending cmd_queue entry (type=0, cmd=0x0021, param0=0xfd51)
wifi0: card already removed or not configured during shutdown
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd: command was not completed (res=0, entry=c1cdbae0, type=0, cmd=0x0021, param0=0xfd51, EVSTAT=0000 INTEN=0000)
wifi0: hfa384x_get_rid: CMDCODE_ACCESS failed (res=-110, rid=fd51, len=6)

Again, sometimes it works fine for 15-20 minutes and suddenly the light turns off.

I've tried to trace the problem, but, in my ignorance, nothing makes sense to me.

Help!

TIA