Tom Allison <tallison1@twmi.rr.com> wrote:
But I built my own pcmcia-modules package and kernel-image package
from the 2.4.17 kernel-source and 3.1.36 pcmcia-source. You mean that
these are still building bad links?
Not the pcmcia source. The kernel source is building the bad links,
and there has not been a new release of this package since this problem
was discovered. Therefore, there has not been an opportunity to fix the
problem with the kernel packages.
I have tried using the --force-overwrite option when installating
the pcmcia-modules package and it still does not work. I am able to
get past the problem with the pcmcia-core problem. But the specific
drivers I am using (orinoco, orinoco_cs) are still failing to modprobe
successfully.
The temporary fix (until version 3.1.36-7 can be installed) is
to copy the etc/config file from the pcmcia-cs source (i.e.,
/usr/src/modules/pcmcia/etc/config in the pcmcia-source package) to
/etc/pcmcia/config. That should fix your problem for now.
Your current config (assuming that you are running version 3.1.36-6
of pcmcia-cs) is set up to use the kernel drivers, not the standalone
drivers. (This has been changed in 3.1.36-7.) Since you are building
the pcmcia modules from the pcmcia-cs source, you want to use the
standalone drivers.
- Brian