I have the Belking PCI card with the ADMtek 8211 chipset. I've gotten it to work before, so I know it can be done. I just reinstalled Red Hat 9, compiled the drivers for the card, and did the insmod 8211.o. The card shows up on iwconfig and I can change the nickname and the encryption key, but that's it. If I try to change any of the other settings for it, it doesn't give me any error messages, but it doesn't change it either. (i.e. iwconfig eth0 channel 6 runs, but doesn't change the channel) The card also doesn't show up on ifconfig (not sure if it should or not).

Thanks in advance for any help!

gah, I feel stupid now. I just had to use ifconfig eth0 up.... ><

Is there a way that I can get this to set itself up at startup?

Yes, edit
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

Example settings:

DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
GATEWAY=<IP address of your gateway/router>
NETMASK=255.255.255.0

and any wireless options you want to set.

look at ifup-wireless script in the same directory for wireless parameters that can be set.

cool, thanks. But I still have the problem that I'm insmoding the 8211.o every time I boot, what would I have to do to get it to load the driver automatically when I boot?

try
alias eth0 8211
in /etc/modules.conf

where should I place the driver for that to work?

driver should be installed into the correct location when you do a make install of the driver. Should be under /lib/modules/...
find /lib/modules -name '8211.o' -print

do a modprobe -v 8211 and see if the module installs.
use lsmod to list modules that are currently loaded.

the make install just put the driver in the directory it was run in, I'll try putting it in one of the folders in /lib/modules/ and see if it works

wow, that thread would've helped... I wonder why it didn't show up my search...

Anyways, that's pretty much what I did, I got the right folder and it comes up just fine now, thanks a lot for the help!