Re: Fedora and PCMCIA support - upgrade kernel?

From: Alex (alex_at_totallynerd.com)
Date: 11/13/03 

Date: 12 Nov 2003 17:54:19 -0800

Lenard <lenard@127.0.0.1> wrote in message news:<pan.2003.11.12.13.34.28.512850@127.0.0.1>...
> On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:01:21 -0800, Alex typed:
>
> > Thanks again for the help, but alas, didn't work. when I ran 'make
> > modules', it ran for about 45 minutes and errored out with vmlinux
> > error. I went ahead and ran 'make modules-install' and 'make install',
> > but it didn't do much after that. Rebooted and no second kernel listed.
>
> Once the make modules errored out you should have quit. No reason to
> continue.
>
> > I guess Fedora isn't as robust as Red Hat 9 since I do remember doing
> > this one in Red Hat to add NTFS support. I'll try to do a complete
> > install of Fedora C1, maybe I missed something... though i checked
> > almost EVERYTHING on the install, including all development tools
> > because I anticipated doing something like this to get PCMCIA support.
>
> Here's a couple of other possible methods that may help;
>
> Method One
>
> Check if the kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-13.i386.rpm package is installed, if
> not then install it. After you have checked or installed the package you
> need to edit the /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia file. You need to remove the .o
> extensions on lines 107-9.
>
>
> Method Two
>
> You need the kernel-source RPM package for your current kernel installed
> and you need to remove the kernel-pcmcia-cs RPM package. It basically the
> same as the other directions I gave you with a couple of changes.
>
> Download and unpack the pcmcia-cs-3.2.4.tar.gz available at;
> http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/
>
> From the console or xterm session from the location you stored the
> downloaded pcmcia-cs-3.2.4 package;
>
> Type; tar -zxpvf pcmcia-cs-3.2.4.tar.gz
>
> Type; cd pcmcia-cs-3.2.4
>
> Type; ./Configure --force --extraver=<version_number>
>
> If you don't to this then it will use <version_number>custom as the kernel
> source tree. Use the version_number of your actual kernel(Hint:uname -r).
>
> Answer the following questions like the examples below;
>
> kernel source directory is: /usr/src/linux-2.4
>
> build trusting versions: n
>
> include 32-bit cardbus support: y
>
> PnP BIOS resource checking: n
>
> Module install dir: /lib/modules/<kernel_version_number>
>
> Type; make all
> Type; make install

Update....

After getting the error during 'make bzImage', I rebooted and nothing
on the network card... not even a link light. I then compiled the
pcmcia-cs file and rebooted. Now, the link light is back, but at
first no network support. I did find that if I pop the card out and
push it back in, I do hear it beep, then network card works.

During startup I noticed that it started eth0 before it starts
PCMCIA... so it gets an error saying network card not found. After
the system starts, I'm thinking popping-out the card and putting back
in causes Linux to find it correctly and starts everything proper.

So... for now, network is working. Is there anyway to change the
order in which Fedora starts everything? If so, maybe moving eth0
after PCMCIA will do the trick.

Thanks for all the help...

Alex.

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