Installing bcm4400-source during gentoo 2.6.11 install
 

I'm trying to install Gentoo on a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop (Celeron processor, 512
MB RAM, 30 Gb hard drive) and I'm having a little problem. I've tried all
the methods that the Gentoo manual describes to establish an eth0
connection and none of them seem to work. /sbin/ifconfig comes back with...

****BEGIN OUTPUT****

livecd # /sbin/ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:43:64:9E:6C
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:2376 (2.3 Kb)
Interrupt:7

****END OUTPUT****

but there's no IP address, broadcast address, or subnet mask. My guess is that the network card (a Broadcom BCM4400 10/100 ethernet with wireless capability) isn't supported by the kernel driver that keeps getting installed for it (b44). I found a package online (bcm4400-source) apparently compiled for debian that seems to be specific to this card. I'm at the stage where the next thing I need to do is install Portage, but apparently I need an internet connection to do that.

My question is: how can I compile this driver? (I've tried using gcc and I keep getting the following error

****BEGIN OUTPUT****

sh: line 1: /usr/bin/gcc-config: No such file or directory
gcc-config error: Could not get compiler binary path: No such file or
directory

****END OUTPUT****

Of course, the make command isn't recognized. Once it's compiled, I can
take it from there, assuming that this is the package I need.)

If this is a RTFM or STFW question, I apologize in advance. Any help will be appreciated.

Dkostic

Get the driver source from the vendor (Broadcom) support site.
I got a Dell Inspiron 1100 (no wireless) to work fine once compiled.
Readme indicates it isn't tested/supported at 2.6, but 2.6.11 works fine.