Kernel, pcmcia-cs & Orinocco wireless card

[ewall]

I'm not too experienced with kernel compilation and Gentoo, but am not new to GNU/Linux. I've installed Gentoo 1.2 from scratch (er, stage 1) and am still working on my custom kernel... but I can't seem to get one that likes the Orinocco 802.11b card.

I have two successful builds with different configurations:

with pcmcia + prism2 support in the kernel, pcmcia-cs emerge'd afterwards
no pcmcia support in the kernel, pcmcia-cs builds the modules and I autoload them

Either way, cardmgr recognizes and powers up the card with setup; and dhcpcd attempts to use the card and the status light blinks, but it just hangs. I'm not using WEP or anything that should require other configuration as far as I understand, but maybe dhcpcd needs to pass some flags to ifconfig that I don't know about?

~eric

[some_bob]

I use a Cisco card myself, so maybe this does not apply, but does your card register in /proc?
If so, what does the Status report? Are there any errors in Config?

[ewall]

Well then, yes, I found out the problem: me . Both methods/kernels work fine... but I had to find and install the wireless-tools (I had been unsuccessfully looking for "linux-wlan-ng" and others) and configure the network id, comme ca:

[aja]

I think what you are looking for is already there as emerge -S (big S).