WLAN configuration

Hello everybody,

I am configuring a Realtek wireless PCI card on my Gentoo
system (2.4.20-gentoo-r5). This is what I've done so far:
1. compiled the driver from source code --> rtl8180_24x.o
2. insmod rtl8180_24x.o
3. added "rtl8180_24x" to /etc/modules.autoload
4. added "alias wlan0 rtl8180_24x" to /etc/modules.d/aliases
5. edited /etc/conf.d/wlan.conf, setting SSID_wlan0="com1" and enabling it
6. created /etc/wlan/wlancfg-com1
7. created /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 and added "need wlan" to the depend
section.
8. rc-update add net.wlan0 default

When my system boots, I get the following error: Starting WLAN devices...
Failed to enable the device, resultcode=no_value cat:
/proc/net/p80211/wlan0/wlandev: No such file or directory error: Autojoin
indicated failure.

Could somebody please tell me what I forgot to do, or what I did wrong?

Thanks in advance,

Souf.