prism54 firmware problems only after system update

[echalon]

I am having trouble with my prism wireless pcmcia card. The firmware is failing to load with a "SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory". However, this is ONLY after I recently did an emerge --update . Before everything was working fine. The firmware file 'isl3890' is in /lib/firmware, and the FIRMWARE_DIR set in /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent is /lib/firmware. Here is a list of the packages that were installed/updated.

=== 2005-10-07 17:36 ======== portage-2.0.51.22-r2 ===
=== 2005-10-07 18:03 ======== m4-1.4.3 ===
=== 2005-10-07 18:03 ======== m4-1.4.2-r1 ===
=== 2005-10-07 18:03 ======== gcc-config-1.3.11-r4 ===
=== 2005-10-07 18:04 ======== gnuconfig-20050602 ===
=== 2005-10-07 18:04 ======== binutils-config-1.8-r5 ===
=== 2005-10-07 18:04 ======== binutils-config-1.8-r4 ===
=== 2005-10-07 19:09 ======== texinfo-4.8-r1 ===
=== 2005-10-07 19:10 ======== man-pages-2.07 ===
=== 2005-10-07 19:11 ======== man-pages-fr-1.64.0 ===
=== 2005-10-07 19:12 ======== grep-2.5.1-r8 ===
=== 2005-10-07 19:12 ======== flex-2.5.4a-r6 ===
=== 2005-10-07 19:13 ======== gdbm-1.8.3-r2 ===
=== 2005-10-07 19:18 ======== unzip-5.52 ===
=== 2005-10-07 19:19 ======== esound-0.2.36-r1 ===
=== 2005-10-07 19:19 ======== automake-1.9.6-r1 ===
=== 2005-10-07 19:20 ======== sandbox-1.2.12 ===
=== 2005-10-07 19:20 ======== debianutils-2.14.1-r1 ===
=== 2005-10-07 19:22 ======== shadow-4.0.7-r4 ===
=== 2005-10-07 19:24 ======== bzip2-1.0.3-r5 ===
=== 2005-10-07 21:12 ======== sun-jdk-1.4.2.09 ===
=== 2005-10-07 21:22 ======== make-3.80-r2 ===
=== 2005-10-07 21:27 ======== pciutils-2.1.11-r5 ===
=== 2005-10-07 21:28 ======== jpeg-6b-r5 ===
=== 2005-10-07 22:26 ======== libxml2-2.6.20-r2 ===
=== 2005-10-07 22:30 ======== libpcre-6.3 ===
=== 2005-10-07 22:31 ======== kde-env-3-r4 ===
=== 2005-10-07 22:31 ======== kde-env-3-r3 ===
=== 2005-10-07 22:42 ======== glib-2.6.5 ===
=== 2005-10-07 22:42 ======== intltool-0.34.1 ===
=== 2005-10-07 22:43 ======== intltool-0.33 ===
=== 2005-10-07 22:53 ======== gtk+-2.6.8 ===
=== 2005-10-07 22:54 ======== libpcap-0.9.3 ===
=== 2005-10-07 22:54 ======== netcat-110-r8 ===
=== 2005-10-07 22:55 ======== libdts-0.0.2-r3 ===
=== 2005-10-07 22:59 ======== gawk-3.1.4-r4 ===
=== 2005-10-07 23:00 ======== splat-0.08 ===
=== 2005-10-07 23:00 ======== splat-0.07 ===
=== 2005-10-07 23:22 ======== smpeg-0.4.4-r6 ===
=== 2005-10-07 23:24 ======== dhcpcd-2.0.0 ===
=== 2005-10-07 23:37 ======== mozilla-launcher-1.42 ===
=== 2005-10-07 23:45 ======== kvoctrain-3.4.1-r1 ===
=== 2005-10-07 23:46 ======== eject-2.0.13-r2 ===
=== 2005-10-07 23:49 ======== kregexpeditor-3.4.1-r1 ===
=== 2005-10-07 23:51 ======== xmms-esd-1.2.10-r1 ===
=== 2005-10-07 23:53 ======== xpdf-3.00-r10 ===
=== 2005-10-07 23:55 ======== nmap-3.83 ===
=== 2005-10-07 23:57 ======== links-2.1_pre18 ===
=== 2005-10-07 23:58 ======== realplayer-10.0.6 ===
=== 2005-10-08 00:21 ======== hicolor-icon-theme-0.8 ===
=== 2005-10-08 00:21 ======== hicolor-icon-theme-0.5 ===
=== 2005-10-08 00:26 ======== gtkspell-2.0.11 ===
=== 2005-10-08 00:35 ======== apr-0.9.6-r3 ===
=== 2005-10-08 00:36 ======== apr-util-0.9.6-r2 ===
=== 2005-10-08 01:13 ======== terminus-font-4.14 ===
=== 2005-10-08 01:13 ======== terminus-font-4.12 ===
=== 2005-10-08 01:14 ======== a52dec-0.7.4-r5 ===
=== 2005-10-08 01:15 ======== psmisc-21.6 ===
=== 2005-10-08 02:07 ======== fftw-3.0.1-r2 ===
=== 2005-10-08 02:08 ======== boehm-gc-6.5 ===
=== 2005-10-08 02:08 ======== boehm-gc-6.4 ===

Any suggestions on possible issues/fixes?

Thanks