[Sussex] Please help me keep my hair!

[Geoff Teale]

Adam,

Paul (who is on the list, wakey wakey,) had problems with his Gentoo install
as well - although it seems the LiveCD simply didn't have a driver for his
card on it (doesn't sound like your problem).  

Anyhow, you can install Gentoo using the older Gentoo LiveCD or another
bootable distro (Knoppix is a good choice). Paul did this, and obviously
when he compiled the kernel he made sure he selected the right drivers.  It
could be that the rc2 Live CD has some problem with the drivers you need,
Gentoo RC's are by no means bulletproof and this sort of thing happens quite
a lot - _please_ report this as a bug rather than just posting it on the
forum, that way it'll get fixed before 1.4final; http://bugs.gentoo.org.

A bootable distro will get you past the catch 22 of can't get my network to
work and thus can't get the kernel source to make the network work.

-- 
geoff.teale at claybrook.co.uk
tealeg at member.fsf.org

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