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
