got it all to work with cisco perfectly (except I need to fix stuff until it's broken), so I decided to try to get my orinoco card to work as well (which I have done in the past but am encountering new issues)...
followed:
http://www.cs.swt.edu/~am60347/rh72.html
lsmod:
orinoco_cs
orinoco [orinoco_cs]
hermes [orinoco_cs orinoco]
ds [orinoco_cs]
my lights are blinking (as apposed to just solid green) on my card, which is good...
iwpriv eth1 monitor 2 1
Invalid command : monitor (I've read up on this and can't seem to find the problem)
messages.log
Sep 19 10:21:45 t0y cardmgr[6270]: starting, version is 3.1.34
Sep 19 10:21:45 t0y cardmgr[6270]: socket 1: Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE Adapter
Sep 19 10:21:45 t0y cardmgr[6270]: executing: 'modprobe hermes'
Sep 19 10:21:45 t0y cardmgr[6270]: + modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
Sep 19 10:21:45 t0y cardmgr[6270]: modprobe exited with status 255
Sep 19 10:21:45 t0y cardmgr[6270]: module /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/pcmcia/hermes.o not available
Sep 19 10:21:45 t0y cardmgr[6270]: executing: 'modprobe orinoco'
Sep 19 10:21:45 t0y cardmgr[6270]: + modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
Sep 19 10:21:45 t0y cardmgr[6270]: modprobe exited with status 255
Sep 19 10:21:45 t0y cardmgr[6270]: module /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/pcmcia/orinoco.o not available
Sep 19 10:21:45 t0y cardmgr[6270]: 'orinoco_cs' already bound to socket 1
Sep 19 10:21:45 t0y cardmgr[6270]: executing: './network start eth1'
Sep 19 10:22:05 t0y modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
Sep 19 10:33:34 t0y kernel: device eth1 entered promiscuous mode
Sep 19 10:34:03 t0y modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/modules.dep (No such file or directory)