I tried installing 1.4rc1 with the boot-image downloaded on 23rd September 2002, I was not able to find the pcmcia-modules on CD, also it seems not to be compiled in Kernel, seems to be known problem, but not in bugzilla, see also http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=86393#86393
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 8067 ***