Wireless PCMCIA setup

[Bill Davidson]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 15:25:08 -0500, Edward Jabbour <ejbr at comcast.net> wrote:
> I have been trying for two days now to set up a Netgear WG511 card.
> I've searched the web so much that my head is now literally spinning.
> 
> I've compiled CONFIG_PRISM54 into my 2.6.8-r3 kernel. Some info:
> 
> cardctl ident
> Socket 0:
> product info:  "Intersil", "ISL3890", "_", "_"
> manfid: 0x000b, 0x3890
> function: 254 (null)
> 
> iwconfig
> lo no wireless extensions
> eth1  NOT READY! ESSID:off/any
> Mode:Managed  Channel:0  Access Point:  00:00:00:00:00
> [etc - in other words, no wireless]
> 
> I have emerged the latest (unstable) baselayout and its dependencies, and
> pcmcia-cs. I do not have wlan, net.eth0, eth1 or similar
> in /etc/init.d.  The networking guide in the Gentoo Handbook is not much
> help.

According to the gentoo handbook, the script in /etc/init.d is called pcmcia.

Bill