Re: pcmcia problems with shrike on sony vaio r505tl

[Michael Fratoni <mfratoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Saturday 05 April 2003 04:15 pm, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Gordon Messmer wrote:

> > > however, building a new kernel and doing "make modules_install"
> > > not only creates a new /lib/modules directory, but also creates
> > > within it a $PC directory with nothing but symlinks to the
> > > actual module files under $KD.
> >
> > That's odd.  Wonder why it would do that?
>
> not sure, but as long as it insists on doing that, new
> kernels aren't going to have PCMCIA support from what i can see,
> since that top-level "pcmcia" directory is going to fake out
> the PCMCIA startup script, isn't it?

I've missed a lot of this thread, so if this isn't applicable, ignore me.

As far as I know, that directory full of links has been there for some 
time in stock kernel packages.

For example:

[mfratoni@xxxxxx anaconda]$ ls -d /lib/modules/*/pcmcia
/lib/modules/2.4.18-19.7.x/pcmcia  
/lib/modules/2.4.18-27.7.x/pcmcia
/lib/modules/2.4.18-24.7.x/pcmcia

[mfratoni@xxxxxxx slinky]$ ls -d /lib/modules/*/pcmcia
/lib/modules/2.4.18-27.8.0/pcmcia
/lib/modules/2.4.18-24.8.0/pcmcia

However, on a Shrike machine:
[mfratoni@xxxxxx SOURCES]$ rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.4.20-8
[mfratoni@xxxxxx SOURCES]$ ls -d /lib/modules/*/pcmcia
ls: /lib/modules/*/pcmcia: No such file or directory

Even on my laptop, which uses pcmcia:
[mfratoni@xxxxxxxxx mfratoni]$ ls -d /lib/modules/*/pcmcia
/lib/modules/2.4.18-14/pcmcia

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pgp key:  http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt
Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/
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