eepro100 driver in LiveCD 1.4_rc1

I've installed Gentoo 1.2 on an older system and decided it is the way to go
for my main box.  Before starting the install, I went to Redhat's hardware
browser and wrote down all the hardware and driver info, so as to make sure
I got it right.  Upon beginning the install I had some problems, however.

The CD booted fine and I ran pci-setup.  It detected everything fine.  When
I did a "modprobe eepro100", however, it couldn't find the driver.  A quick
look confirmed it.  I did see eepro, but not eepro100.  I tried the same
with eepro and insmod failed.  Still, I wasn't sure if that a normal message
or not (against my better judgement I was optimistic).  I went to the next
step and ran "net-setup eth0", which also failed (telling me dhcpcd was
already running, I think?).  I had a look at the interface with "ifconfig
eth0" and it said that it was both UP and RUNNING, with what looked like a
valid IP, so I again foolishly plodded forward.  I went forward.
Partitioned everything, chroot'd the system and got as far as the first
"emerge sync", which then failed to connect.  I tried other stuff like "ping
microsoft.com" to which it failed to resolve the name, let alone attempt a
ping.  Definately no network connection.

I went on the Gentoo forums and found that other's had this problem (missing
eepro100 driver in 1.4_rc1) but the answers weren't so helpful.  They were
conflicting and not clear, mostly.  I looked in bugzilla and found one
problem with eepro100 that seemed to be related to a usb conflict (not that
same as my problem, I think), so I'm here hoping someone on here can help.
:-)

When I got the sync error, I ran "dmesg" and found that early on, it
mentions an eepro100 driver (eepro100.c not eepro100.o) but I guess it
doesn't load that driver, because later on it tries loading the eepro driver
and spits this back out:

eepro_init_module: Probe is very dangerous in ISA boards!
eepro_init_module: Please add "autodetect=1" to force probe

In the output of dmesg, that message gets repeated a few times, then it goes
on to other stuff, then it comes back and repeats that message one last
time.

Are there plans to include the eepro100 driver in future iterations of the
1.4 CD?  Can anyone offer me some advice about getting it running?  Thanks
in advance for any help.  :-)

-Tom Caudron