I have recently installed Gentoo 2.6.15 on a laptop and I am having trouble getting my orinoco gold card to work properly

i see it in dmesg and it confirms the MAC, WEP support, etc...

i can see it when i run ifconfig eth0 up and i get a light on the card
i can change the essid when i use 'iwconfig eth0 essid linksys'

BUT when i try to set the channel 'iwconfig eth0 channel 6' i get the following error:

Error for wireless request "Set Frequency" (8D04) :
SET failed on device eth0 ; device or resource busy

i compiled hermes support in the kernel and dont have any modules loaded
i emerged wireless-tools

is there anything else i need to install to make this work?

ADDITIONAL INFO:
i tried to fire up airodump to see what would happen
when i run 'airodump eth0 test 6' i get the following error

ioctl(SIOCSIWMODE) failed: Operation not supported

ARP Linktype is set to 1 (Ethernet) - expected ARPHRD_IEEE80211
or ARPHRD_IEEE80211_PRISM instead. Make sure RFMON is enabled:
run 'ifconfig eth0 up; iwconfig eth0 mode Monitor channel <#>'

when I tried to run 'iwconfig eth0 mode Monitor channel <#>', i get:

Error for wireless request "Set Frequency" (8D04) :
SET failed on device eth0 ; Operation not supported



ANY IDEAS?

i read that i should check iwpriv and i should have 'monitor' listed
i do not have that listed.

i also read if that is the case then i need to patch my driver.
i downloaded a patch file but do not know where to do this since
the hermes driver has been compiled into my kernel

do i have to patch then recompile the kernel?
how can i tell which driver/version i am running from my kernel?

thx