Re: When: Gentoo 1.4rcX with PCMCIA support?

Andreas Koch wrote:
> I am under the impression that a network card is
> required to fully install Gentoo (to fetch the additional packages from the
> net). My 1.4rc1 CD does not seem to contain _any_ support for PCMCIA network
> cards. Does you laptop have a built-in network card instead?

1.4rc1 can be installed with pcmcia network support thusly:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=14894#86393

followed by:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=15075#84424

i've done it. others have. it works. not elegantly. not without a lot of
pain. but it works.

good luck.

--chris