"no wireless extensions" on Orinoco PCMCIA card

[blandoon]

I'm trying to get my Enterasys 802.11 card (Orinoco chipset) working in Gentoo. I religiously followed the instructions in [url https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=122435]the thread on that subject[/url]. I have configured my kernel correctly (I think), emerged pcmcia-cs, and I can see the appropriate modules loading when the card is inserted.

But iwconfig still shows interface "eth1" as having "no wireless extensions." The only solution I've found to this is to enable the wireless options in the kernel, which was already done to begin with.

Have I forgotten to do something obvious? Or is there some kind of hardware/driver problem I should look for? Thanks in advance...
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[Jimboscott]

Hello,

Perhaps you should send more information: like which module or kernel/kernel option you use.

is cardmgr loaded : try a

[blandoon]

Jimbo,

Thanks for your reply. I did check to see that cardmgr was running.

Here is the output of cardctl ident:

[smart]

This looks correct.

If there are no other interfaces registered so that maybe you tried to use the wrong interface for wireless, would you be willing to go to a 2.6 kernel ? I cannot see anything wrong really, so i'd suggest an update to get newer drivers at hand.

[UberLord]