(Solved) PCMCIA loads manually but not automatically @boot?

[Number6]

So I've been installing Gentoo on a Dell 8200 laptop.

All the great documentation on the site has been very helpful. I've got a working kernel (without using genkernel!) and a functional KDE desktop.

Now, I'm just trying to get a few last things working and Google doesn't seem to help anymore.

I have a wireless pcmcia card. So before I can get the wireless working, I got to add in PCMCIA support.

I've spent about a day and a half trying different compile options, but I can't get PCMCIA support to work when added in the boot runlevel. I did check the documentation but I didn't get anything helpful there.

However, I can compile pcmcia support as a module, i82092 support as a module, yenta_socket as a module and it still fails on bootup. BUT, all I do after I login is type "modprobe i82092" and then "modprobe pcmcia" and then it works and then I can see my wireless card when I do a lspci.

What am I missing here? Why won't pcmcia work while booting? I get the following error while booting: "cardmgr failed to start. Make sure you have PCMCIA modules built or support compiled into the kernel."

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[cwr]

I compile PCMCIA support into the kernel; I don't really see why you'd want
it as a module, since you aren't going to rip the PCMCIA socket off the motherboard.
The wireless card driver (orinoco_cs in my case) gets built as a module, and udev
and hal then set up networking via the /lib/udev and /etc/init.d/net.whatever scripts.
(Don't ask me how they all fit together; it's a maze of twisty little shell scripts, and
I've never really understood the exact path through them.)

Anyhow, it mostly seems to work. When it doesn't I force it with a shell script:

#!/bin/sh
# Load the orinoco driver.
modprobe orinoco_cs
# Bring up the interface.
ifconfig eth1 up
# Call the dhcp client.
/sbin/dhclient -e PEER_ROUTERS=no -e PEER_DNS=no -e PEER_NTP=no -e IF_METRIC=2000 -q -1 -pf /var/run/dhclient-eth1.pid eth1
# Show the routing table
route -n
# eof

Good luck - Will

[Number6]

Solved

I was able to get it to work when compiled in natively.