Problems with pcmcia on potato (on Dell Latitude)
I'm trying to install potato on my new Dell. Not having a CD, I'm
trying to use the ftp method and am keeping the bootstrap packages on
a 'Dows partition. I've been running slink on an HP laptop for over a
year, but this is my first experience with potato -- which I think I
need because my xircom ethernet pcmcia card is too new for the slink
pcmcia-cs packages.
Anyway, the install is failing at the point where I configure PCMCIA.
I get an error message about not finding something in /lib/modules/2.2.13.
It's failing only in that pcmcia won't work; I can complete the install
up to the point where I need access to the net.
If I reboot the machine and poke around, I find that I can install the
base pcmcia_root (or *_base or *_core? -- I'm back to running 'Dows
in order to send email and don't remember) but that trying to install
any other module in ./pcmcia fails because of unresolved symbols. If
I understand depmod correctly, they all depend on ds.o, and when I try
to ismod this I get "no socket driver installed!"
Two questions:
1) What went wrong with configuring pcmcia support in the install?
2) What do I do to get the socket driver installed? I don't remember
any install options having to do with sockets.
Thanks!
--Eric House
PS This laptop was able to get online running slink using an older 3com
card: I've done this correctly at least once.
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