The newer kernels have the Realtek 8139 set up as 'hotplug pci' style.. the drivers for this particular card are not built into the card services suite... one must enable PCMCIA support in the kernel via module (or static, i guess) -- This in turn, enables the following modules: pcmcia_core yenta_socket ds yenta_socket is not a built in module on the dist cd, and as such, will not allow anyone with this pcmcia net card to get a network up and running on the cd. Once this is done, modprobing in the correct order will allow the card to function without requiring the card services, or cardmgr to be loaded at all.
A URL which I used to fix this problem, can be found here. They might be able to explain it better then myself. http://groups.google.com/groups? q=unsupported+card+in+socket+linux+pcmcia&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF- 8&selm=3D4BAF5B.5000100%40web.de&rnum=2
This is part of a bigger problem. The pcmcia-cs and kernel modules do not get along well. Unfortunately, neither one is completely better than the other. We choose to put the pcmcia-cs modules on the installation CD; it certainly would not be a bad idea to make another with the kernel modules.
I am marking this as a duplicate of bug 3888. I am in the process of revamping our pcmcia-cs ebuilds, and I will make sure that Daniel includes the core kernel pcmcia stuff (yenta_socket, pcmcia_core, etc.) and the drivers and tools from pcmcia-cs (no i82365 or tcic). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3888 ***
Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux". I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers, this is the only reasonable way to do this.
