Hey I'm trying to get gentoo up and running on my laptop. It's the first time I've really tried getting a laptop up and fully running with linux and I could use some help. Does anyone know where I can get the patches to make my intel 845 Chipset work? This is the output my lspci: 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 11) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 11) 0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 42) 0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM SMBus Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000] (rev 01) 0000:02:04.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) 0000:02:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 0000:02:07.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller 0000:02:0a.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50) 0000:02:0a.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50) 0000:02:0a.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51) 0000:03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) So naturally, those are the things I need to get up and running. I've already got my wireless card going with ndiswrapper (posting using it now). In short, any help finding these patches and tips on getting linux to fully work on a laptop like this (Sager 5660) would be helpful!

For your NIC try the 8139too kernel module and for your VGA card get the ATI drivers from their website.