Wireless PCMCIA - Why is it so hard??

[Pengwin]

I've done so much searching that I've gotten myself REALLY confused and I need a sherpa to help find my way out. Can someone point me to a howto that will describe *from scratch and in detail* what I need to do to get the following working:

Thinkpad 600
Gentoo 2.4.26 kernel (from 2004.2 live)
PCMCIA Linksys WPC11 (Not v4)

I can get it working if I turn off WEP but obviously I can't (don't want to) do that. I've tried compiling just about every pcmcia and wireless module/option. Installed linux-wireless-ng.

Help! Please! (and TIA)

[MHD]

If you can get it working without WEP then I doubt it is a problem with the NIC or PCMCIA

(mine works flawlessly netgear WG511)

Have you looked at Uberlords wireless thread?
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=122435&highlight=wireless+setup+gentoo

I followed his instructions and it worked...
even lets me set different keys for different SSID's
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[UberLord]

My stuff doesn't work with linux-wlan-ng yet - nor will it unless the linux-wlan-ng devs support the wireless-tools extensions.

So either don't use my stuff or use another driver if possible
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[Pengwin]

Thanks for the prompt responses guys.

Unfortunately I think I need some very remedial instruction. One thing I'm confused about is all the packages and modules related to wireless and pcmcia.....

Kernal PCMCIA and WiFi modules
pcmcia_cs
linux-wlan-ng
wireless-tools (which my portage doesn't seem to know about)
iwconfig (which I don't seem to have)
an array of configuration scripts

Which is these are required and which are reduntant or conflicting? In other words...what's the minimum I need to install and configure to get the WPC11 working with WEP and kernel 2.4?

Thanks again.

[epretorious]