Re: Successfull Etch install on a Multia

[Harmon Seaver <hseaver@gmail.com>]

   Is there any work-around for the pcmcia problem? Being able to run
pcmcia is for my prism2 wifi nics is the whole point of my multia's
existence. Is there an older package that will work?


Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 02:33:11PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> Yet another nit: PCMCIA is broken.
> 
>> spellbound:~# modprobe i82365
>> module rsrc_nonstatic: Relocation overflow vs section 24
>> WARNING: Error inserting rsrc_nonstatic (/lib/moi82365: Unknown symbol pccard_nonstatic_ops
>> dules/2.6.18-3-alpha-generic/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/rsrc_nonstatic.ko): Invalid module format
>> FATAL: Error inserting i82365 (/lib/modules/2.6.18-3-alpha-generic/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/i82365.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> 
> Ah, so maybe this problem isn't limited to SMP kernels after all.  Well,
> that should make it easier for me to debug, anyway...
> 
> I confirm getting these two lines in dmesg when trying to load this module
> with 2.6.18-4-alpha-generic:
> 
>  module rsrc_nonstatic: Relocation overflow vs section 24
>  i82365: Unknown symbol pccard_nonstatic_ops
> 
> Hmm, the relocation overflow here is in a different section than was
> reported for the SMP problem, but perhaps there's a common root cause
> nevertheless.
> 


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Harmon Seaver