cardmgr not seeing any cards! help!

[rlyacht]

I recently installed gentoo on a thinkpad 560Z notebook, using an orinoco wireless card for networking. It's been working fine for a few weeks. Yesterday, I suddenly lost networking and couldn't get it back. When I boot, cardmgr no longer sees the card in the slot, so it never even gets to try to start networking. If I look at /var/run/stab, it says that both sockets are empty. In order to eliminate the possibility that it was a software or configuration problem I did this:

1. Swapped the orinoco for another 802.11b card (linksys) that was currently working in a machine.
2. Booted from the tomsrtbt from which I first installed (and which had automatically set up networking via a wired xircom PCMCIA NIC)

In both cases, nothing was detected in the PCMCIA slots. This is sounding like a hardware failure isn't it? The only think that would contradict this is that when I did the BIOS test of PCMCIA, it said it was ok. What other tests can I try?

[klondike_kid]

have you tried bringing the Orinoco Card up from a console?

Commands if you need them...

modprobe i82365
modprobe Orinoco_CS
cardmgr -f
(if you are using the RG like me, as well as DSL, you will also need to do the following..)
dhcpcd eth0 (providing this is the only card)

Don't forget to edit resolv.conf to your dns server, and goodluck =)
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[rlyacht]

I tried that and no dice. I can modprobe orinoco_cs and the modules install fine. But cardmgr just doesn't seem to think there are any cards in the slots