Intel 845 chipset support in 2.6 Kernel

[smcallis182]

I'm trying to get my Sager 5660 notebook up and running with gentoo and I'm stalled a little building a kernel for it. I'm trying to get all my hardware up and running as fully as possible.
This is my lspci:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 11)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 11)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 42)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM SMBus Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000] (rev 01)
0000:02:04.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
0000:02:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:02:07.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller
0000:02:0a.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50)
0000:02:0a.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50)
0000:02:0a.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51)
0000:03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

Since this is the first time I've tried getting laptop hardware running with linux. Can anyone offer me any help? Like where can I find the patches I need to get these various controllers up and running (mainly the intel 845 so I can have DMA on my harddrives..)

Any help would be appreciated!

[kaidon]

I don't think you'll need any patches to get the intel 845 running.
I'm running gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.8 on a Dell Inspiron 8500 which also uses the intel 845 chipset. Working like a charm here.

For DMA just enable it in your kernel config and then use hdparm to tune your disk.

cheers
k