Re: Fedora and PCMCIA support - upgrade kernel?
From: wesley (w_olandat_at_yahoodot.com)
Date: 11/13/03
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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 21:02:25 -0600
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 17:54:19 -0800, Alex wrote:
> 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.
On my laptop with an external PCMCIA network card, the card initializes
after eth0 would normally have been brought up. I added the following line
to the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file:
/sbin/ifup eth0
This picks up an IP address and gets things running just fine. Hope it
helps you in your situation.
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