Ping to you, since you're an OSS stud!
no Linux people on tonight?
bir,
some of the distrobutions start the network before they start pcmcia (one of my major pet peeves with fedora) so you can either bring it up after boot 'service network start' or change the order of files in /etc/init.d
google on setting the order if youre in a hurry, if not Ill give you an example later but Im really busy this moment (taking breaks here and there during a dr test) Im 18 hours without food so any time I get will be spent towards that end ;)
Sorry and Ill get you a better answer in a day or two