pcmcia service on RedHat-9.0

From: Timothy Murphy (tim_at_birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie)
Date: 08/24/03 

Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 01:24:42 +0100

After upgrading from RH-8.0 to RH-9.0
I found a problem with networking,
which I traced to /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia .
In this script (or at least the version I have)
if the directory /lib/module/<version>/pcmcia exists
then the script tries to run "modprobe pcmcia_core.o".

In fact this directory does exist,
although it seems to have disappeared in kernel 2.6.0 .

With my setup, this does not work --
you must just say "modprobe pcmcia_core"
(unless you happen to be in the directory with the .o file).

I wonder which is wrong in my case --
have I somehow got the wrong pcmcia script,
or should "modprobe <module>.o" work ? 

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-86-233 6090
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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