PCMCIA Network card issue

William Stenross <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.newbies
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I am currently trying to get gentoo linux installed on a Dell inspiron 
3700 with a 3com PCMCIA network card (3ccfe575ct model).  When I had red 
hat installed on that laptop, it used a kernel driver 3c575_cb for the 
card.  However, when I configured the gentoo kernel, menuconfig did not 
have that as an option.  All it had was drivers for 3c574 and 3c589.  I 
did not configure them into the kernel

The PCMCIA module is being loaded, however the load of eth0 (the pcmcia 
network card) fails when dhcpcd is attempted to be initialized.

I have tried to recompile the kernel with support for 3c574 and 3c589 
with no success.  However, I suspect it is because I am not recompiling 
the kernel correctly.  Here are the steps that I take.

cd /usr/src/linux
# make menuconfig
# make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install
# mv /boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage.orig [fails because bzImage does not exist]
# cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot

is that all i need to do to recompile the kernel?  Will it then load the 
new kernel the next time I reboot?

thanks in advance.  Any help or direction to places on the web that 
would go into this in detail would be helpful.(although google searches 
have turned up little)

-Bill
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