gentoo wireless pcmcia

[catfishk]

i have a toshiba laptop running a new gentoo 1.4 system. i have an asus wl-100 wireless card running the prism2 chipset and everything works fine untill it tries to load the wlan0 driver at startup. what i don't understand is why do i get link lights for a few seconds untill the probe for wlan0?

i have installed the drivers for linux-wlan and they seem to work except modprobe can't find wlan0. it doesn't appear to have been built.

-c

[catfishk]

i have the linux-wlan package installed from what i can tell is a 'proper' install since no errors werereported. pcmcia_cs is enabled and i have power to the card. what builds the module, wlan0, and why can't gentoo find it?

thanks -c

[mdwatts]

Is wlan0.o in your modules directory (/lib/modules/<kernel version>/...)?

Is it reporting not found when loading with

modprobe wlan0

[catfishk]

yeah. gentoo can't find it with modprobe. it doesn't appear to be built.

do you know what is responsible for building it?

[mdwatts]

Are you sure wlan0 is a module and not a device such as eth0 and ppp0?

The G4L search results for 'wlan0.o' (http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=wlan0.o&btnG=Google+Search).

[catfishk]

i'm not sure at all. is this something i should check for in /dev/? basically, i don't have anything for wlan enabled in the kernel and wlan-ng built everything else. just recently prism2_cs stopped working as well. i had everything working in debian a week ago with just the wlan package and it built a module, or so i guess, and it worked next boot. i can't see why gentoo would be different?

maybe i am going about this all wrong. should i have this enabled in the kernel adn without the wlan-ng package? i don't really understand how the prism2/2.5/3 kernel option works but if anyone has an idea...

still pluggin away... thanks