Toshiba Tecra 8100, Netgear PCMCIA networking and 1.4_rc2

[wobblytickle]

Hey all,

I think I've hit a bit of a brick wall installing on one of these as the cdimage kernel was compiled without Toshiba laptop support. My tail of woe goes something like this.

Can boot from the livecd but can't bring up networking as I think I need the yenta_socket module to see the controller. No PCMCIA means no networking therefore no emerge

The box is dual boot so my plan is at the moment to do the best I can with the install (i.e. format and install a stage 3 tarball); then under windows download the kernel, cardmgr and any other bits and peices missing, boot back in from the cd, chroot to the half installed gentoo, compile a kernel with support, cardmgr and other bits and peices, and make the thing bootable with networking that way.

This is of course utterly convoluted, inelegant and going to take a while, furthermore if this box were not dual-boot I'm guessing I'd be royally boned as there are no kernel-sources on the cd, nor sources for the other bits and peices I'm missing.

Am I missing something simple here? can anyone think of another way to get round this?

Cheers,

[bsolar]

I remember this topic...

Here you'll find it.

[wobblytickle]

[wobblytickle]

Just for the record I was able to compile and install a new kernel with Toshiba laptop support whilst booted from the cdimage. As the stage3 tarball comes with grub pre-installed I was able to boot from that kernel, and, using a shared FAT32 partition I was able to get pcmcia-cs installed. Once yenta_socket was loaded, cardmgr brought my network card up first time.

I did it this way on a dual boot Windows 2000 system but you can do it provided you have a way of getting the kernel-source and pcmcia-cs source onto the system (filesystem that linux can read, removeable storage (!) or even a second CDROM (!!)

I hope this proves useful for someone in the future.

Now to find out how to ask for Toshiba Laptop Support = [Y] in the cdimage kernel