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Message from Steven
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Steve wrote:
>
> Then executed //etc/pcmcia/start/ and got a high beep... 
> then another high beep, success! /ifconfig/ was reporting 
> eth0 and /dmesg /showed the PC card as 3c589_cs. No errors yet.

Good, you are nearly there.

> I tried to get an address from the router 

Have you tried setting the address manually?
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ifconfig eth0 xxx.xx.xxx.x
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Substitute the real address numbers for the x's

> by running /udhcpc/ and it couldn't find //dev/urandom/ 

That's simply solved by adding /dev/urandom:
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mknod /dev/urandom c 1 9
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Note:  if you set the address manually, then you 
don't don't use udhcpc.  They are two alternate 
ways of establishing your address on the network.

> cardmgr /is giving the error "/Card Services release 
> does not match/"

Ignore.  It's not an error, just a warning.

> I'm not by any means a Linux guru or even a Linux user, 
> and I am piecing this together solely through use of 
> Google. 

You've made a huge amount of progress.  You're nearly
there.  Don't give up.

Cheers,
Steven