Well, I edited /etc/pcmcia/conf and added " V2" to the Linksys
PCMCP100 entry and cardmgr recognized my card.  It has problems
though with "missing interrupts".  Anyone got any clues on how
to fix that (or at least what's wrong)?  This card used to work
fine under Linux (and still works fine on OpenBSD).

So I got gentoo installed ... and now I have some questions.

How do I "delete" and eth interface?  Every time I eject
and reinsert the NIC, I get a new eth, which isn't cool.

I mounted /usr/portage/distfiles from my OBSD NFS server, just like
my OBSD boxes do.  I really like that.  I'm still on dialup, and not
having to redownload something I already have is nice.  EXCEPT,
the performance is horrid.  It takes 90 seconds for the Linux
client to complete the mount.  The OBSD server is NFSv3, this is
what I have in my /etc/fstab on the linux client

phreke:/home/ports/distfiles    /usr/portage/distfiles  nfs     
rsize=4096,wsize=4096,intr,nfsvers=3

and this is in the OBSD (phreke) server's /etc/exports

/home -alldirs -maproot=jakemsr -network 192.168.2.80 -mask 255.255.255.240

Any ideas?  Should I try forcing tcp instead of the default udp?
I'm seeing a buttload of fragmented packets from the Linux client.

Since the NFS problem could well be related to the NIC (although
I was getting good ftp performance from it at work, and haven't
had any other real problems with it), I would like to get the
XE 2000 working.  It's listed as supported in the pcmcia-cs docs.
I did some googling and found some reports from about two years
ago that the card was working fine.  I found some more recent
reports of people having the same problem I have; it won't
receive any packets and other oddities.  The only solution I saw
was to put the card in promiscuous mode, and that's not
guaranteed to work.  I'm not thrilled about doing that, but, if
it works better than what I've got now ...

As far as gentoo goes ... it's OK, I suppose.  I'm not too
thrilled with emerge and ebuilds, although I haven't had any
problems yet.  The *BSD ports trees are mostly Makefiles, and
one uses make to build and install ports, just like you would
if you were installing from source.  <Sigh> simplicity.

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