On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Timothy Murphy wrote: > On Tuesday 06 January 2004 17:24, Daniel Roesen wrote: > > > > having just built a new 2.4.22-2135 kernel under a new install of FC1, > > > i was puzzled as to why my linksys pcmcia wireless card didn't come up at > > > boot time. or any pcmcia functionality, for that matter. having been > > > down this road before with the 2.5/2.6 kernels, i quickly tracked it down > > > to the same old problem with the /etc/init.d/pcmcia file. > > I agree. > Every time I compile a new 2.4 kernel I have to > cd /lib/modules/2.4.xy > mv pcmcia pcmcia.bak as i pointed out, rather than doing that, just change those three lines in /etc/init.d/pcmcia and remove the offending ".o" suffixes. in any case, given that this issue has been bugzilla'ed in the distant past, is there any reason that it's *still* there? it really does represent an annoying "gotcha" since it means that a new install of FC1 will work just fine but, at the very least, your PCMCIA-based networking will fail the very first time you build a new kernel. and those are the kinds of bugs that are devilishly hard to track down, especially for people who might be building their first kernels. rday
