Hello all! I am trying to get Gentoo Linux working using the stage 1 tarball. However, I need to load the madwifi drivers in order to access the internet from the livecd (minimal).

So far, I've tried to modprobe them from my slack partition, but I cannot as it reports that it cannot find the module. This is not supprising as it is not in the livecd's /lib/modules/2.6.5/net directory. I cannot move them there either, as it is read-only. I tried insmod, however it complains about the module format being incorrect, specifically about the use of a structure in the drivers. This also does not supprise me, as I compiled the modules against kernel 2.6.7 and the cd runs 2.6.5.

I was wondering if you can remaster the iso for the gentoo livecd, similar to what you'd do with a knoppix disk, and compile/install the modules on the iso, which would then be re-written to cd-r? Would the kernel detect the atheros card then automatically after I did that, or do I need to configure hardware detection to do so? How could I do this?