WPC11 v3 help pls (orinoco_cs not present)

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I've been piddling with my wireless card for the past 2 days for hours and hours.
i know there are a zillion threads out there about this but any help would be much appreciated.
i have searched every nook and cranny of this forum and googled to death, but i can't
seem to find a solution that works for me.

I have a Compaq Evo N800c.
Linksys WPC11 v3 wireless pc card
Fedora Core 3 test 3

I've gotten it to this point but no further, any suggestions would be much appreciated.
It will print "Oct 23 21:32:13 localhost ifup: orinoco_cs device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization." upon bootup. It does the same thing when i type "ifup eth1"

here are the printouts from a few commands that might help

lsmod:

Module                  Size  Used by
radeon                120517  2
parport_pc             24705  1
lp                     11565  0
parport                41736  2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4                24005  0
i2c_dev                10433  0
i2c_core               22081  1 i2c_dev
sunrpc                160421  1
ipt_REJECT              6465  1
ipt_state               1857  3
ip_conntrack           40693  1 ipt_state
iptable_filter          2753  1
ip_tables              16193  3 ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter
button                  6481  0
battery                 8517  0
ac                      4805  0
md5                     4033  1
ipv6                  232577  8
yenta_socket           18753  1
ohci_hcd               22225  0
ehci_hcd               31557  0
snd_intel8x0           34829  0
snd_ac97_codec         64401  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss            47609  0
snd_mixer_oss          17217  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                97993  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              29765  1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          9673  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
gameport                4801  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_mpu401_uart         8769  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi            26725  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          8137  1 snd_rawmidi
snd                    54053  9 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore               9889  1 snd
orinoco_cs              9545  0
ds                     16965  1 orinoco_cs
pcmcia_core            59913  3 yenta_socket,orinoco_cs,ds
orinoco                47053  1 orinoco_cs
hermes                  7617  2 orinoco_cs,orinoco
e100                   39365  0
mii                     4673  1 e100
floppy                 58609  0
dm_snapshot            17029  0
dm_zero                 2369  0
dm_mirror              23341  2
ext3                  116809  2
jbd                    74969  1 ext3
dm_mod                 54741  6 dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror

iwconfig:

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.

ifconfig:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:08:02:63:46:91
          inet addr:192.168.1.101  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::208:2ff:fe63:4691/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1060 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1197 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:948789 (926.5 KiB)  TX bytes:279716 (273.1 KiB)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:1960 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1960 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:2155966 (2.0 MiB)  TX bytes:2155966 (2.0 MiB)

i've also updated every possible available RPM.
does the same on kernal 2.6.8 or 2.6.9 (can't remember the specific versions)

thanks!