Wireless card in PC slot not recognized by Airport software

Since upgrading to Tiger from 10.3.9, I have not been able to use my wireless card (MacWireless cardbus 802.11g) in my PB G4 667 after I eject the card and reinsert. The PC Card menu item recognizes the card, but not Airport. If I leave the card in and put the machine to sleep, Airport will recognize the card. It's only when I turn off Airport, power off the card, and eject it to transport my laptop that I can't get Airport to work. The only solution is a restart. This worked fine under 10.3.9, but now is broken. I have tried deleting my preferences (which MacWireless support recommended) at:
Library/Preferences/System Configuration/preferences.plist
But that does not help either.
Powerbook G4 667 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

But is there any reason that the card isnt getting power, there are no green lights on the end of the card like there was when it worked. I still do have my IOXperts driver under other. But when I click it all values in status is N/A. The diagnostics button when pushed shows ""Diagnostics: Firmware versions: (Blank). Il try what you say but I dont think the pane is the issue.

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this is my first post to this forum. I own a PowerBook G4 (late 2005) since February 2006, but still do consider myself being new to the world of Mac.
Most questions in this forum get good and detailed answers. That's why I hope someone here can help me with some issue regarding my PowerBooks PC Card slot. Thanks in advance for reading this.
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Hi eww,
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I bought the card from a company called nova media: http://www.novamedia.de/epages/e_produkte_gt_hsdpamac.html. Novamedia develops drivers and connectivity software for those data cards by Option, and sell them bundeled with hardware. So I'm pretty sure this card basically works on PowerBooks. Their support answered several of my questions, and even developers got involved, but at the end they couldn't say for sure if it's their drivers or my PowerBooks fault. They never had this kind of error before.
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