Showstopper upon first install step with WirelessNIC

[Reformist]

After a lot of researching and a lot of attempts at getting Gentoo on my laptop, I've failed in the first ~3 steps.

I'm running an HPxf328 laptop with an (orinico module) Netgear MA401 Wireless PCI card. I'm booting from the 1.4_rc2 CD, and I cannot get my wireless connection to the lan (which connects to the internet) working. THe third step in getting PCMCIA cards to work in the install guide includes cardmgr -f, which completly crashes my computer with a weird screen (blue, sometimes bar-codish) and it is completely unresponsive.

A similar problem is outlined in this thread:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=19622&highlight=wireless

I'm trying to avoid a lot of complicated workarounds, but as of right now I might try anything. I cannot get into my system to emerge anything, and I cannot get online to wget any packages - I cannot ping.

If I just skip the cardmgr -f step, and load the pcmcia-core, i82365 and ds modules, and then proceed to load my cards module manually (orinoco), net-setup and dhcpcd commands do nothing - I have no ip address assigned to me, and I do not have text "UP and RUNNING" in my output.

I've got gentoo running on my main machine, an thlon 1.2 I was fairly excited about installing it on my laptop, I just kind of decided to do it while in lecture today. I knew there would be problems down the road with ACPI and some of th hardware, but little did I know that I wouldn't get past the first 20 lines of text in the install guide =)

Not good! Requesting immediate help! Crashing cardmgr and lack of network config on a release candidate seems a bit strange, and very frusterating and depressing.

PS: I've tried a lot of other PCMCIA modules for the heck of it, nothing is working. I'm also fairly sure Orinoco is the module people have my card working under.
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-Phil Crosby

[Reformist]

bump

Is this cardmgr crashing bug supposed to be fixed in the final 1.4 release with the inclusion of a newer cardmgr build? I've seen people complain about it, and I don't think it's just with my card.

Doh... wanted to show a few freinds my gentoo laptop this week in class =)
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