wireless card treated as wired [work-around]

[jettjunker]

work-around edit:
I read in the bugbuild thread that the kernel version works fine now (so long as you download and copy firmware over yourself... I copied them to both /lib/firmware and /lib64/firmware/ to be safe, backing up the existing bins in the latter), so I did that and it's working for me. I'm still curious why this stopped working all of the sudden, and whether some of the 6 modules that load now are unnecessary for me (rt61, rt61pci, crc_itu_t, rt2x00pci, rt2x00lib, and eeprom_93cx6), but hey... it's working.

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original post:
This morning I booted up my computer and NetworkManager (nm-applet) tells me via mouse-hover, "Wired network connection with a self-assigned address," and it lists ra0 as a Wired Network when I click on it. It's so strange since the only thing I updated yesterday was portage... I have no idea why I'd be getting this problem all of the sudden. Bringing down ra0, stopping NM, rmmod rt61, modprobe rt61, ra0 up, and starting NM back up didn't fix anything, nor did a reboot, nor re-emerging the driver.

Some info...
net-wireless/ralink-rt61-1.1.2.2-r2 #gentoo bug-build

ifconfig

[Abraxas]

Perhaps hal-info isn't reporting it as a wireless device. I had a similar problem a while back and I think it ended up being related to hal-info.