Hi!
I have an IBM ThinkPad 600X with Slackware 10.1 installed, and am using a 2.6.11.12 kernel with the orinoco patches.
I use a 2wire wireless network card to connect to the wireless LAN at my house. It was working fine, as of yesterday. However, I wanted to used Airsnort, and it asked me for the wlan-ng drivers. So I used Slackpkg to install wlan-ng from the Slackware (extra) repositories.

Anyway, on rebooting my computer the 2wire card is not recognised anymore. When I put the card in nothing happens (and nothing is recorded in dmesg). This card used to work fine prior to this. The kernel modules are all present and patched for the orinoco drivers.

I removed the wlan-ng package and this did not help.

PCMCIA works fine, as my pcmcia ethernet card works well. It appears that I have lost the wireless config only.

I am sure this is because the wlan-ng package overwrote some config files, but I cannot figure out what it could be.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

I figured out that the /etc/pcmcia/config file was changed

The line:
device "orinoco_cs"device "orinoco_cs"
#class "network" module "hermes", "orinoco", "orinoco_cs"
class "network" module "orinoco_cs"

Needs to be changed to:

device "orinoco_cs"
class "network" module "hermes", "orinoco", "orinoco_cs"
#class "network" module "orinoco_cs"

All is well now.

Sorry about the post, but, after playing around for hours, I posted the question, and then 2 minutes after I posted, I figured it out.

Maybe this will be useful to someone else.