Getting started with Netgear WG511

I have a problem with my WG511 pcmcia 54g wifi card.  The prism54 driver 
loads OK, it reports firmware download successful and reports doing the 
reset.  However it has not really been successful.  iwconfig reports 
device status "NOT READY" and the driver hangs up - waiting for 
something.  Syslog reports vast numbers of messages saying "timeout 
waiting for mgmt response" for that device.

Now, what I notice is the activity/power LED doesn't light.  The pcmcia 
subsytem does not see the card at all.  Always reports socket empty.  It 
works fine with other cards.  BTW the card works well with doze.

So what's happening here?  Do I need to get pcmcia to see this card?  Is 
that the problem? If it is the problem how come that the correct drivers 
are loaded when the card is inserted?

Or is this just a problem with the firmware version.  I've tried 1.04.03 
and 1.0.3.0 from the fw download page.

I really don't know what sort of problem I'm looking at - I'd appreciate 
some guidance on this.

I'm using Debian 2.6.7 kernel and version of the driver.

Thanks

Dick