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---------- > From: David Fox <fox@graphics.cs.nyu.edu> > To: thinkpad@cs.utk.edu > Subject: Re: PCMCIA and Linux 2.0.18 > Date: Thursday, September 12, 1996 2:29 PM > > In article <m0v0XDM-0000WUC@omerie.ai.mit.edu> cph@martigny.ai.mit.edu (Chris Hanson) writes: > > ] From: "Alan Sukiennik" <Alan.Sukiennik@voicenet.com> > ] Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 20:43:41 +0000 > ] > ] Hi there, > ] > ] I've just upgraded RedHat Linux 3.0.3/1.2.13 to 2.0.18 on my 755CD > ] and lost all PCMCIA support. The /lib/modules still contains /1.2.13 > ] directory with /pcmcia in it and that's what is being referenced. > ] Would anyone know how to upgrade that? > ] > ] The PCMCIA support, like all modules, is kernel-dependent. If you are > ] running 2.0.18 you need to have modules that were compiled for 2.0.18; > ] the 1.2.13 modules will not work. > ] > ] This is why the subdirectories under "/lib/modules/" have version > ] numbers on them. > ] > ] So you will have to recompile PCMCIA and reinstall it. > > More specifically, you will need pcmcia-cs version 2.8.22, available > from hyper.stanford.edu in pub/pcmcia. Redhat does things a little > differently from Dave Hinds, but if you install it and fiddle with the > config files in /etc/pcmcia things should work. You'll need your > entire kernel source tree to build pcmcia-cs. > -- > David Fox http://found.cs.nyu.edu/fox xoF divaD > NYU Media Research Lab fox@cs.nyu.edu baL hcraeseR aideM UYN > > Yep, recompiling new pcmcia + `make lib` and `make lib_install` did it. I did panic for a second because of the total loss of connectivity (modem and eth0). Even if for just getting the updated software into the PC. Fortunately, the gzipped file fit on a floppy. These days a stand-alone machine is almost worthless ;) Regards and thanks, -Alan