pcmcia question on gentoo

[Net Llama!]

On 11/27/03 08:06, Rick Sivernell wrote:
>    This will only apply to those who are using wireless pcmcia. I have gentoo
> running on my laptop, also 2 pcmcia cards. one is my xircom which runs
> flawlessly. I have added a dwl-650, bottm of the line. The system reconizeses it
> just fine, but since I do not have a wireless station to bradcast to to it, I can
> not check it for operations. Now I have created a net.wlan0 from net.eth0 and
> rc-updated init. & set the iface_wlan0=:dhcp". I may not, most like not, have
> this setup properly. If someone has done this for gentoo or knows where some
> really good docs are, can not really find what it takes there, I would appreciate
> it.
> 
>    Also my floppy drive does not seem to want to work, it appears that devfsd has
> failed to reconize it or set it up. The system sees the drive ok. I can go back
> to cd install and it works fine there.  On the new install of gentoo, have they
> setup the system to read /boot and at system login removed it from mounted
> status?

I can't really answer any of the other questions (my use of gentoo was 
about 4 days worth, several months ago), but i do know that not mounting 
/boot is a normal thing, and isn't anything to be concerned about.


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