Atmelwlandriver?

Has anyone used the atmelwlandriver with pcmcia-cs?  I only started using Arch today so maybe I'm doing something silly.  My card's a Belkin F5D6020v2, and I followed basically the same steps which worked under Gentoo.
I installed pcmcia-cs from abs as the normal "pacman -S" didn't seem to install the modules correctly.  I then manually installed the atmewlandriver from http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net and added "eth1" to rc.conf.  But restarting pcmcia and network doesn't work - the modules, including pcmf502rd from the atmel package, load fine, but dhcpcd refuses to find the IP address.  I don't really know where to go from here.. Any help will be greatly appreciated...
-Laura

Xentac had a vaio-specific install CD that included a large range of drivers. Maybe it would be a good idea to have a boot CD which includes a wealth of drivers, and than you can do an FTP install?
Ugh, slowly but surely we're getting support for belkin cards. I'm not sure what the deal is with including drivers in packages, but is wlan-ng26/4 even maintained by arch? (I have wireless on my one PC but it isn't supported, so I really don't know much about it on linux)
EDIT: I'm liking this, can't wait to get home and try it:
http://gcc.gnu.org/java/

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