Fedora Core 5 and Belkin Wireless......setup issue.....

I have a fresh installation of Fedora Core 5 on my Dell laptop that
comes up great and detected my hardware - most of it in great shape.
However, and this must be a common thread, my Belkin wireless PCMCIA
card (F5D6020, wireless B card) doesn't work, although the Fedora Core
5 installation 'sees' the card in the network device list, but somehow
it's config is screwed up. For the record, this same wireless card
works fine with my dual-boot Winblows XP installation. When I boot the
machine, all the typical runtime proceses at startup show 'OK', except
when the boot hits 'eth1' (the PCMCIA Belkin wireless card). Somehow,
the boot window shows the following:

ETH1: SIOCSFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable [FAILED]

I'm a newbie to Fedora and don't know what to do to get the card
running - it's never operated since the initial install (last night).
I've read numerous posts about compiling and reinstalling drivers
(since there's about 2 different chipsets for that Belkin wireless card
- Atmel and RealTek). But I'm not sure which one the Fedora Core 5
install uses. Mine is the version 2 Wireless card (which I think is
the Atmel chipset), but I'd prefer not to butcher the installed driver
for now if there's a config error somewhere (IP, channel, etc). I have
the drivers for the Atmel and RealTek versions and I'm willing to
compile it for the 2.6 Kernel, but until I know that the 'stock' driver
is wrong, I'm going to hedge. I've even heard that an entirely
different driver (Orinoco-cs) will work for this card......?

Any clues out there from the group would be greatly appreciated for
anyone who's a wireless network expert or has messed around with this
Belkin card. Thanks in advance for your advice.....!

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