Can't help you directly as I haven't any experience with his card, but I would 
suggest looking through and searching the gentoo forums for help.

In particular, you may want to try this link.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=49672&highlight=xircom

Martin

On June 27, 2003 11:17 am, you wrote:
>     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

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