[Cialug] [cialug]10.1 networking problems

[Dan Hockey AAS/ASE]

I installed mdk 10.1 power pack ed on my laptop and had wifi working just 
fine for about a week when wifi quit. I tried to reinstall the card(orinoco 
gold)but all that shows up in the wifi setup is "manually load driver", so I 
tried the orinoco_cs driver and it still shows "manually load driver". 
cardctl info/ident shows the card properties but wifi still didn't work.So I 
tried the wired network and it worked just fine.This is the point when I 
took the windows way of fixing things...a clean reinstall. This worked for a 
little over a week then the same problems showed up again, wifi quit, but 
wired networking still works. I rebooted to xp and the wifi card and ap's 
are working with no problem.Has anyone else heard of anything like this?Is 
there some way to fix this without reinstalling?
-dh