UN6: Getting an orinoco card and pcmcia-cs playing nicely

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• How do I get my orinoco card and pcmcia-cs to play nicely?
  1. Configure your kernel withOUT PCMCIA/Cardbus support and withOUT support for your network card then compile your kernel.
  2. emerge pcmcia-cs
  3. Double check the following files to make sure they are set for your network conditions:
     • /etc/init.d/net
     • /etc/conf.d/pcmcia
  4. Reboot and perform the following commands:
     • insmod pcmcia_core
     • insmod i82365
     • insmod ds
     • cardmgr -f
  5. Step 4 should have brought your networking to life. To get networking on boot add the modules that you manually insmod'ed to the file /etc/modules.autoload

Please note that this answer was basically plagerized from a post by marthisdil in this thread.