Can't get networking up for beginning installation

[rebelwarriorprincess]

Not new to linux but new to Gentoo. Have run Mandrake and Redhat for years. Thought I'd try Gentoo becuase I like its configurability and its speed. So far having fun mucking with it. Reminds me of the older Redhat 4.2 days. I like it! Nice job guys! Anyway...here's the schpeel:

Gateway 7500 series AMD64
Using install-amd64-universal-2006.0.iso to boot from
Got through initial boot process fine
Ran net-setup on eth0 and got back nothing.
Ran net-setup on eth1 and it finds the wireless (I think it is finding the wireless card anyway) because #ifconfig results in lo and eth1 being brought up in the listing but eth1 has no ip addr.
If I run #dhcpcd eth1 the shell prompt returns but eth1 "disappears" as in I run #ifconfig and eth1 is no longer listed. So I have to go back and run net-setup again. After I run net-setup and then do #ifconfig to make sure that eth1 is listed I run #iwconfig to see if the wireless card will be identified and I get the following:

livecd root # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions
eth0 no wireless extensions
eth1 no wireless extensions

But then I run ifconfig:
livecd root # ifconfig eth1
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
Broadcast...blah blah blah

So is gentoo installation actually finding the wireless card but recognizing it only as an ethernet (wired card) or is it not finding wireless period? Either way can one of you nice folks help me get wireless working so I can continue playing with this cool distro? Thanks much!


Hardware specs for the networking is as follows:
Broadcom 802.11g Network adapter
Marvell Yukon 88E8036 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller
1394 Net Adapter
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[thewally]

Have you loaded wireless card module?
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[rebelwarriorprincess]

I am not entirely sure that I have correctly loaded the module, no. However in reviewing my installation notes from my Mandrake installation a while back I seem to recall that the Broadcom needed ndiswrapper to load properly because of windows .inf junk...(not a big windows fan...sorry.) I am still feeling my way aound installing packages with gentoo....any help or pointing me towards the manualas to where to look for the help is appreciated. Thanks!
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[thewally]

This CD (Conrad LiveCD) has ndiswrapper installed, use it for gentoo installation.
To know more about using ndiswrapper take a look here.
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[rebelwarriorprincess]

Thanks! (If you can't tell I am rubbing my hands in glee and cackling with delight!) I'll let you know how it works. Give me a bit of time.
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[thewally]

[rebelwarriorprincess]

Okay, now I've read a bit to ask a couple of questions:

I am presuming you are running x86 from the information contained in the CONRAD installation guide? Do you know of any "gotchas" I should look out for since I am running x86_64?

And I set my hdparms as follows:

hdparm -d 1 -A 1 -m 16 -u 1 -a 64 /dev/hda and this increased my cached read from 1168MB in 2.00 seconds to 1176 MB in 2.00 seconds. A small improvement but I'd like to get a bit more out of this puppy. Recommendations?

Still reading through the installation documentation from the link you sent me before I jump into it. Got the iso burned and ready to go when I'm done reading. Thanks!
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