There may be issues with pcmcia in 1.4_rc3. Installing on a IBM Thinkpad 600X with a 3Com Etherlink III PCMCIA card. When the image boots, the /etc/init.d/pcmcia script needs to be run before the network will come up. Perhaps this is un-avoidable, if so it should be documented.
While we are at it, the install doc needs to say more than: Warning: You will have to re-emerge pcmcia-cs after installation to get PCMCIA to work. In needs to at least say: i) build the kernel without pcmcia (reproduce the instructions in the pcmcia-cs ebuild, or at least reference them) and then re-emerge pcmcia-cs ii) tell people to add the pcmcia rc script to the same run level as net.ethX - usually this means rc-update add pcmcia default. Word.
Are latest experimental cds handle pcmcia better youll still need to boot with "gentoo dopcmcia" for it to automagically start pcmcia. Ill cc' docs ppl for the rest
I'm not in a position to re-test; i learnt these lessons installing 1.4_rc3 on my main work machine :-) More than anything, these special boot options / setup steps need to make their way into the documentation - having seen pcmcia work (after small hassles) off the liveCD it's obvious that it can be made to work. What isn't so obvious is how ;-)
I have never used PCMCIA cards. I'll make the document changes if someone that is familiar with setting PCMCIA cards under Gentoo can write what those changes should be.
Indeed, there *may* be issues--is this just with RC3? I recently installed RC2 on my laptop (I wanted GRP support), and had no problems with this. Who has a laptop to try this out?
As RC4 has been released and installed flawlessly on my laptop (Acer Aspire 1300) I'm marking this one fixed (in rc4). If there are troubles again with rc4, make a new bug plz.
