RE: pcmcia config script

["Neil L. Roeth" <neil@occamsrazor.net>]

This and later message from someone else say to create a symbolic link
to kernel-source-<version>.  Why? AFAIK, it is unnecessary.  (Or, I am
blissfully ignorant of something.)  If the below were modified by
removing the "ln -s" line and changing the "cd linux" to "cd
kernel-source-<version>" it would all work just as well.  No chance of
having a link point at the wrong place, either.


On Sep 12, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry (shaleh@valinux.com) wrote:
 > Debian kernels, the Debian way -- why is this not documented somewhere?  Maybe
 > I should put this in my task laptop package?
 > 
 > install the following packages:
 > kernel-source-<version> (comments on this below)
 > pcmcia-source
 > kernel-package
 > bin86 (for x86 laptops)
 > 
 > # at the command line
 > cd /usr/src
 > tar zxvf kernel-source-<version>.tar.gz
 > ln -s kernel-source-<version> linux
 > tar zxvf pcmcia-cs.tar.gz
 > cd linux
 > make menuconfig # or xconfig, or just plain config
 > make-kpkg --revision=`uname -n`.1 kernel_image
 > make-kpkg modules_image
 > cd ..
 > dpkg --install kernel-image-<version>.deb
 > dpkg --install pcmcia-modules-<version>.deb
 > reboot
 > 
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Neil L. Roeth
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