"Jordan T. Cox" <nowhere@phantomdata.com> wrote in message news:<bmmsa3$8le$1@news.astound.net>...

> Aric,
>
> Failing everything else...
>
> For the life of me, I could not get Gentoo to utilize my common Linksys
> ethernet PCMCIA adapter. I fixed it by giving the emerged package the
> old heave-ho, and going straight by that pcmcia how-to. I compiled the
> source myself, and everything worked fine. You may try that, if nobody
> else comes up with a solution.

Well, I had hoped the good advice given me would work, and I could
then post the solution for the posterity of all the people on the
internet who can't get their netgear fa511's working, but I have
failed. Horribly. Now my linksys won't even work. And I've lost
sound. I love linux, but I'm getting the sneaking suspicion that I'm
not a competent enough computer user to use it. And with the recent
news of a microsoft affiliated company investing $50 mil. into SCO, I
think I might just quit using computers altogether. I have tried so
many kernel configurations, and have tried pcmcia-cs over and over
again.

I have disabled everything that even mentions pcmcia in the kernel and
pcmcia-cs is still insisting that pcmcia is enabled in the kernel, and
refuses to install the drivers. I've tried trusting the kernel and
unisntalling pcmica-cs, and manually loading the relevent modules and
it never works. Can anyone tell my why pcmcia-cs thinks I have pcmcia
enabled? I'm seriously bummed here. My favorite OS hates me. Maybe
I'll try VMS.