ASUS Notebook -- Network not working after install

[Samalander]

I installed Gentoo from a minimal CD to my new notebook.

It is an ASUS Z84J Series, which is a barebones notebook. I bought the processor, RAM, pci-e wireless networking card, and HDD separately.

I emerged things successfully from the minimal CD when installing, but I can no longer get my network to work.
I have also installed Windows XP on the Notebook and am dual-booting with GRUB. I'd really like to use Gentoo primarily but without networking it's useless.
When I boot into Windows my networking operates flawlessly (well, as flawlessly as Windows does anything)

I did emerge pciutils before breaking my system. lspci gives results that include the following line:
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 4364 (rev 12)

I had this conversation a while back in #Gentoo with Carebear:

[22:47] Samalander: Oh, I can tell which one it is
[22:47] Samalander: It says (02:00.0 0200: 11ab:4364 (rev 12))
[22:48] CareBear\: Samalander : That's the sky2.c driver.
[22:48] Samalander: CareBear: Thanks, how did you figure that out?
[22:48] CareBear\: Samalander: SysKonnect Yukon2 support (EXPERIMENTAL), CONFIG_SKY2
[22:49] CareBear\: Samalander : Simple; cd /usr/src/linux/drivers/net && grep -r 0x4364 .
[22:49] Samalander: CareBear: Thank you very much!

Which indicates I need the sky2.c driver enabled in the kernel.

Well, it didn't help. In fact I've tried enabling various drivers and also every driver as a module, but nothing seems to work. I think I perhaps removed something important from my kernel that is not a driver setting that prevents Ethernet from working.

I also have a wireless Intel card, as I mentioned, but I have no wireless network at home, so I can't test it here. I could take it over to my Father's house to try to get it working, so long as I don't have to download anything to do so. (In other words, I'll take what I can get, and try to use that to fix the other.)

As an interesting note, the light on my network switch is off as if there is no cable connected. When I boot into Windows XP this light comes on and stays on. I assume that this light is on when my notebook is off because Windows enables Wake-On-Lan. I can boot Windows and shut down my notebook and the light stays on, and do this repeatedly for no change. However, as soon as I boot Linux the light goes out, and I think this is because something is disabling wake-on-lan and also there is no networking capability detected. This odd behaviour occurs at the udev step of booting.

On a side note, I have my kernel enabled so that it can mount NTFS filesystems, and so on boot it automatically mounts my NTFS Windows drives. If need be, I can download files using Windows XP and leave them on my HDD, then access them after booting into Gentoo. (Actually any tips for this so I can get things like usbutils emerged without web access would be great)

Any help greatly appreciated!

~~~Unrelated Questions~~~

a) If I compile a kernel setting as a module, will it stick around when I do make && make modules_install even I press N in kernel configuration? If this is so, can I safely delete them, or is that entirely unecessary? (i.e. will my kernel load them if they are compiled and waiting on my system even though they are no longer compiled as a module within the current kernel?)

b) When my screen blanks, no keystroke brings it back. Instead I have to press the notebook Fn button and the up brightness button to bring the display back. It seems to be setting Brightness to zero instead of whatever else it should be doing. (Or maybe that is what it should be doing, and it simply isn't resetting it back to the previous setting upon keystroke.)
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[My_World]

Regarding the network driver, you will find quite a few posts related to this and there is a hit and miss situation with the Marvel Sky2 drivers. I have given up on it and installed a realtek card. Some people get it to work, some get partial use from it (it crashes now and then) and then some people can't seem to get it going at all.


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