How can I add PCMCIA support if my ethernet card is PCMCIA??

[swaun]

I ran through the installation instructions, which correctly got my ethernet card working. (Although it took a little forum searching to get emerge configured for an http-proxy). The installation went cleanly, except for some strange errors at the end of the kernel compile. It said something about a "net" directory it couldn't find. Since it still created a bzImage, I concluded that it wasnt' such a big deal.

At the very end, it mentions that you should verify the contents of /etc/init.d/pcmcia. I didn't have a pcmcia file in that dir. Still, I persisted and finished the instructions. After rebooting, I eth0 fails to start.

I believe that this problem is due to my lack of PCMCIA (I compiled PCMCIA support into the kernel, btw). I cannot "emerge pcmcia-cs", becuase my eth interface isn't working. Any ideas???

[angel722]

pcmcia working
ya mine wouldnt work on reboot either
what i was doing was booting with the install cd adn chrooting to the system like in the install since the install manuel brought up my card right i would emerge -f anythign i was looking for when i finally found pcmcia-cs i just chrooted folllowing teh install manuel and emerged pcmcia-cs works fine now you might want to give that a try and i wish someone would add that pcmcia-cs to the install manuel

[swaun]

Thanks. I think I've solved the problem, thanks to the forums. The problems were with the 3Com575 PCMCIA ethernet card and the fact that I had mistakenly compiled PCMCIA support into the kernel.

PCMCIA problem
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=717

3Com575 problem
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=4197