Potato laptop installation problem
I have a Kapok 8500M laptop (Intel MMC1 Pentium 266MHz) with an Intel
PCIC compatible PCMCIA (CardBus) controller (for my Linksys PCMPC100
Etherfast 10/100). I just tried to install the latest Debian (potato
pre-TC3) on it (using the 2.2.15-compact kernel) and got the base
system (no packages) up except for the PCMCIA stuff:
insmod pcmcia_core.o
pcmcia_core.o: unresolved symbol interruptible_sleep_on_timeout_R25a057d5
pcmcia_core.o: unresolved symbol __wake_up_R7a24c808
pcmcia_core.o: unresolved symbol interruptible_sleep_on_R648594ba
pcmcia_core.o: unresolved symbol create_proc_entry_Rf5d4daed
pcmcia_core.o: unresolved symbol proc_bus_R159606ca
pcmcia_core.o: unresolved symbol printk_R1b7d4074
pcmcia_core.o: unresolved symbol remove_proc_entry_R8fba64e3
(yes, "lsmod" shows that no PCMCIA modules are loaded and
"no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices" is logged in syslog).
I understand from the PCMCIA-HOWTO that "version" mismatches between
symbols in the kernel and those compiled into a module will cause this
"unresolved symbol" error (and that there's no way to differentiate --
from the output -- between a version mismatch and when the symbol really
can't be found). By the way, i don't even have "nm" on my system, yet.
My presumption is that my problem is a version mismatch. If this is
the case, isn't this a rather serious "bug"? Maybe PCMCIA stuff isn't
considered release critical no matter what but i certainly can't get
networking working at all given this problem (and i can hardly
recompile everything without any packages installed). I can install
from a partition on another OS (much more work) but i'd like to know
whether this is a problem with the Debian release or something that,
conceivably, i could fix myself.
Thanks for any help (and please cc duncan@nycap.rr.com)
By the way, here's what i have in /lib/modules/2.2.15-compact/pcmcia/
total 679
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14084 Jul 8 14:07 3c574_cs.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26672 Jul 8 14:07 3c575_cb.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11992 Jul 8 14:07 3c589_cs.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9364 Jul 8 14:07 8390.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33742 Jul 8 14:07 aha152x_cs.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 145106 Jul 8 14:07 apa1480_cb.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4972 Jul 8 14:07 cb_enabler.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11020 Jul 8 14:07 ds.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5500 Jun 6 15:49 dummy_cs.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13924 Jul 8 14:07 epic_cb.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24320 Jul 8 14:07 fdomain_cs.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9692 Jul 8 14:07 fmvj18x_cs.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17672 Jul 8 14:07 ftl_cs.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44396 Jul 8 14:07 i82365.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5732 Jul 8 14:07 ide_cs.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13392 Jul 8 14:07 iflash2+_mtd.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10932 Jul 8 14:07 iflash2_mtd.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5344 Jul 8 14:07 memory_cb.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14116 Jul 8 14:07 memory_cs.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10476 Jul 8 14:07 netwave_cs.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8960 Jul 8 14:07 nmclan_cs.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5960 Jul 8 14:07 parport_cs.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 59314 Jul 8 14:07 pcmcia_core.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13044 Jul 8 14:07 pcnet_cs.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11757 Jul 8 14:07 qlogic_cs.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2660 Jun 6 15:49 serial_cb.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8016 Jul 8 14:07 serial_cs.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19940 Jul 8 14:07 smc91c92_cs.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5560 Jul 8 14:07 sram_mtd.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11708 Jul 8 14:07 tcic.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41188 Jul 8 14:07 tulip_cb.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22688 Jul 8 14:07 wavelan_cs.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19948 Jul 8 14:07 xirc2ps_cs.o
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