Prism2 card not found

[jean]

Booted on the live cd and it finds my lan card but doesn't find the senao 2511-cd pcmcia card.

the pcmcia adapter is
texas instruments pci 1510

and the senao is prism 2

reading the free bsd supported hardware I found that prism2 is supported but that I may need to compile it into the kernel
or add a module.

I couldn't find support for any pcmcia cardbus devices unless it's listed under something else.

1. can I get this working without installing the distrubution on a harddrive?

2. If I must install and recompile the kernel then I need very detailed instructions know a little linux but have had less luck with bsd