starting pcmcia at boot

[Tez218]

I installed gentoo linux on my toshiba satellite laptop recently, and almost have everything done. One problem that im having is with pcmcia. I emerged the latest pcmcia-cs and wlan-ng drivers for my wireless card. After I emerged pcmcia-cs, I did rc-update add pcmcia default just like the handbook said. I also emerged hotplug and did rc-update add hotplug default. It boots perfect, it says its hotplugging usb and hotplugging pci. After its done booting and im at my prompt, I plug in my card and nothing happens, not even the ligts on the card turn on. I lsmod to see if the drivers are loaded, and they are not. I do a modprobe prism2_cs, and the lights on the card turn on. I see the drivers with lsmod, but I do not see wlan0 with either iwconfig or ifconfig. The next step I have to do is to run /etc/init.d/pcmcia start and then that will get my card working perfectly. Once all this is done, I can dhcp from my AP and surf the net, but I don't want to have to do this all the time. I have it as a script for the mean time that I run after I log in, but I shouldnt have to do this. I was running slackware before, and it was working fine. I would just stick the card in and it would automatically load the drivers without any problems. Is there something that I didn't configure for pcmcia that may be causing this to happen? Thanks for the help.

(Gentoo Base System 1.4.9, Kernel 2.4.25-gentoo-r2, pcmcia-cs-3.2.5-r1)

[Buge]

Did you compile your kernel yourself?

Try checking if