The machine worked fine, until I recently did an upgrade from an *old* woody package to one that's now probably 3 weeks old (what I had on oldish beta CD images), this is possibly the newest. Not sure. After the upgrade was aborted (for unrelated reason), the pcmcia didn't work. I continued the upgrade with dpkg --configure -a, or apt-get -f install, not 100% sure. Then pcmcia worked right again.
Then a reboot, and it no longer works. So I reckon it is kernel module related. It didn't have ncurses-dev, so I couldn't do my usual make menuconfig route, I copied /boot/config-2.4.16 to /usr/src/linux/.config, then used make-kpkg to build new kernel_image, and pcmcia-modules as well, 3.1.33-6 ... this is also the version of pcmcia-cs that I have. However, on installing this I found that a file conflicts between my kernel and the pcmcia-modules (/lib/modules/2.4.16/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.o). Thus I guess (I cannot remember exactly) I went with kernel pcmcia modules in the past. So I removed pcmcia-modules-2.4.16 again. (Since I used /boot/config-2.4.16, and compiled another 2.4.16 kernel, I'm quite sure the kernel should still be ok? I compiled and installed new kernel, as I don't know if I can build modules otherwise. What is always meant by "configured kernel source tree" if you want to compile modules? Need I always keep a kernel source tree as it was when I compiled a specific kernel when I want to compile modules for it? A nuisance as I often compile all my kernels on my fastest machine. Thus I need to completely recompile the kernel each time I want to compile new modules?) The output I got when I do "rmmod pcmcia_core ; /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart" was: Shutting down PCMCIA services:. Starting PCMCIA services: modulesLinux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22 <SNIP> Right, so I decided to take out PCMCIA support from the kernel and go with pcmcia-modules-3.1.33 instead, as that's what pcmcia-cs I have. Since I don't have menuconfig, I just editted the /usr/src/.config file, set CONFIG_PCMCIA=n, and left the rest of the PCMCIA options as-is. Is this adequate? Compiled new kernel, compiled pcmcia-modules, the install works fine, no conflicts. After a reboot: Starting PCMCIA services: modulesLinux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.33 kernel build: 2.4.16 unknown options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm] Intel ISA/PCI/CardBus PCIC probe: PCI: Enabling device 00:0a.0 (0000 -> 0002) Bridge register mapping failed: check cb_mem_base setting no bridges found. /lib/modules/2.4.16/pcmcia/i82365.o: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters ds: no socket drivers loaded! /lib/modules/2.4.16/pcmcia/ds.o: init_module: Operation not permitted Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters cardmgr. Any ideas? I've not had much problems with PCMCIA before, so I suspect it could be simple. (E.g. recompile kernel with *proper* disabling of PCMCIA?) Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
