I apologize if this topic has already been covered but I have searched the web and numerous forums and have not found a workable solution.

Note: I will update this post with my CODE tags this afternoon.

Device info (Debian HCL):
PCI ID - Works - Vendor - Device - Driver - Kernel
80860885 - Yes - Intel Corporation - Centrino Wireless-N + WiMAX 6150 - iwlagn - v2.6.38-

Gist: New install of Gentoo 3.3.4 kernel. The wireless card does work perfectly from within Sabayon-3.2.0 (wlan0). Upon rebooting into the new system the wireless card is not recognized by the system (mostly).

-firmware (iwlwifi-6050-4.ucode & iwlwifi-6050-5.ucode) is recognized and loaded, verified via dmesg

-modules iwlwifi, mac80211, cfg80211 ("modprobe iwlagn" loads these modules) loaded, verified via lsmod

-"ifconfig -a" does not show wlan0 (eth0, sit0 and lo recognized and functional)

-"rfkill list all" detects no adapters (physical switch on device and led is on)

-"/etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start" yields an adapter not found response

My first question, Is it possible this device is being found as something else (eth1...) and how can I tell what the system sees it as?

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I am beginning to suspect this might be a kernel issue, after reviewing http://packages.gentoo.org/package/s...gentoo-sources this kernel is still marked as unstable for the x86_64. If this is the issue, does anyone know of some good resources for me to reference on rolling-back my kernel without completely breaking my system?

Any insight would be appreciated, thank you.

Well, after a few days of diagnosis, I am going to chop this one up to the unknown and install my Intel Centrino Wireless-N 130 card. Hopefully that one will function as intended.