wireless confusion with Senao PCMCIA card

[pent0z]

hi

i've used many wifi cards with linux:

atheros based (pci), with madwifi drivers (or madwifi-ng)... succes
prism54 based (pcmcia), with stock kernel drivers... success
ralink cards (pci) etc

now i have a Senao pcmcia that is a prism2 chipset. (the model 2511 or something similar, with 200mw)

well...

pcmcia is working, because with a prism54 card IT WORKS

i want now the prism2 card
i've compiled the support for hostap in the 2.6.18-gentoo kernel and after 'modprobe hostap_cs'
i can't see any cards with ifconfig -a (should i see wlan0). dmesg tells me nothing

i see that with backtrack livecd there is the scripts 'switch-to-wlan-ng' and 'switch-to-hostap'
what i have to use ???? only wlan-ng or only hostap or all the two???

wlan-ng from portage doesn't compile with newer kernels
hostap from kernel-sources doesn't work
hostap-driver from portage works ONLY with kernels < 2.6.14

PS:
with the LIVECD i get any output from 'lspcmcia'
with my gentoo i get NOTHING!!! (but if i instert the prism54 card, i see it)
why? does this damn card need a firmware to be uploaded?

i need an howto
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[phalcos]

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