baselayout>madwifi>pcmcia>busted

[digitall2000]

well i am stuck again trying to get the wirless runnng
i want to build an access point

ive got a PIII compaq 7598 presario DESKTOP
running kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r10
baselayout 1.11.13-r1
wpa_supplicant 0.3.9-r1

firewall ~ # lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 GMCH [Graphics Memory Controller Hub] (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801AA PCI Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801AA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801AA IDE (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801AA USB (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801AA SMBus (rev 02)
0000:01:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1988 Allegro-1 (rev 12)
0000:01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:01:09.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
0000:01:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

i emerged
* net-wireless/madwifi-driver
Latest version available: 0.1_pre20050420-r1
Latest version installed: 0.1_pre20050420-r1
Size of downloaded files: 1,922 kB
Homepage: http://madwifi.sourceforge.net/
Description: Wireless driver for Atheros chipset a/b/g cards
License: GPL-2

* net-wireless/madwifi-tools
Latest version available: 0.1_pre20050420
Latest version installed: 0.1_pre20050420
Size of downloaded files: 1,922 kB
Homepage: http://madwifi.sourceforge.net/
Description: Wireless tools for Atheros chipset a/b/g cards
License: GPL-2

then i noticed a madwifi driver on the 2005.1 uni-install disk

when i boot my box i get
...
cardmgr [5058]: no sockets found. cardmgr failed to start. make sure you have
PCMCIA modules built or support compiled innnto the kernel.

and so here i am
right after boot i get

firewall ~ # lsmod
Module Size Used by
pcmcia 20496 -
yenta_socket 20232 -
rsrc_nonstatic 11072 -
pcmcia_core 42788 -

then

firewall ~ # modprobe ath_pci

firewall ~ # lsmod
Module Size Used by
ath_pci 54176 -
ath_rate_onoe 7048 -
wlan 107900 -
ath_hal 146992 -
pcmcia 20496 -
yenta_socket 20232 -
rsrc_nonstatic 11072 -
pcmcia_core 42788 -

when i try to start ath0 i get:
firewall ~ # /etc/init.d/net.ath0 start
* PCMCIA support detected
* Starting pcmcia ...
cardmgr[14792]: no sockets found!
* cardmgr failed to start. Make sure that you have PCMCIA
* modules built or support compiled into the kernel [ !! ] * Starting ath0
* Starting wpa_supplicant on ath0 ...

firewall ~ # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 no wireless extensions.

ath0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:50 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=0/94 Signal level=-95 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

firewall ~ # ifconfig ath0
ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:09:5B:E5:27:86
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:5 Memory:d0940000-d0950000

so i emerge coldplug and hotplug and now have some error on booting about inserting
something that goes by to fastto really readbut i cannot find a log that reiterates what
i see on my boot screen.

now for my questions:
1. where should the boot log reside because i do not see it in /var/log?
2. do i need PCMCIA (it appears i do) and if ido need it what do i need to get i PCMCIA
running?
i used menuconfig to recompile my kernel
3. after i recompiled the kernel i did the cp <my kernel> to /boot... (as per handbook)
does that overwrite the existing kernel if used all the same kernel and revision numbers ?

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Moved from Installing Gentoo to Kernel & Hardware.
Not an installing gentoo problem.
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