(clug-talk) PCMCIA XIRCOM card troubles

[Jason Louie]

   Here's the story.  I have a laptop that I was trying to install 
gentoo 1.4rc4.  I got problems with trying to setup a network 
connection.  I don't know too much about setting up a network connection 
with laptops so bare with me.  I have a XIRCOM 32bit 10/100 card that 
seems to work fine when booted into Win2000 after installing the proper 
drivers.  When I was installing gentoo the netowrk card was not detected 
at bootup so I read the install document and I followed the instructions 
on setting up a PCMCIA card.  I get to the > cardmgr -f < step and it 
seems to be executing fine.  But when I attempt to run > dhcpcd eth0 < 
nothing happens.  I checked ifconfig and eth0 is not assigned an ip-address.

   I know the network is fine since Win2000 can connect and that also 
shows that the card is okay also.  I've also booted the machine with 
Knoppix 3.2 and the previously installed RedHat 9.0 and still no 
connection.  I went to the  XIRCOM site and the only support I could 
find with linux and the card was *XBSCO_1.tar     Drivers for SCO 
OpenServer Release 5*

   I'm not sure what to do.  My main goal was to install gentoo.  But 
to install gentoo I require network connection.  Do I need to download a 
driver for it?  How do you install a driver in linux?  Where would I 
find a driver?  If the *SCO* driver is the correct one how do I use it?  
Are there tools that I can use to install the card?  I know SorceForge 
has a PCMCIA-CS project and I will give that a try when I get home 
tonight.  Has anyone tried this app?  Please help...

Jason