RE: pcmcia custom installation
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> From: Gary Hennigan[SMTP:glhenni@sandia.gov]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 6:07 PM
> To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: pcmcia custom installation
>
> "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shaleh@valinux.com> writes:
>
> > >
> > > Doesn't work. I get some error from a shell script and I wanted to
> > > find out if there was a cleaner way to do this before I tried to track
> > > it down. Sure would be nice if there were some type of a package like
> > > make-kpkg that allowed us to use raw pcmcia source code.
> > >
> >
> > do the following:
> >
> > apt-get source pcmcia-source
> > cd /usr/src
> > tar zxvf pcmcia-cs.tar.gz
> > <load a web browser>
> > go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcmcia-cs/
> > <download the latest pcmcia version>
> > untar the pcmcia-cs-<version>.tar.gz into /usr/src/modules
> > cd /usr/src/modules
> > cp -a pcmcia-cs/debian pcmcia-cs-<version>
> > cd pcmcia-cs-<version>/debian
> > <add new entry to changelog>
> > cd /usr/src/modules
> > mv pcmcia-cs pcmcia-cs.old
> (I did rm -rf pcmcia-cs)
> > ln -s pcmcia-cs-<version> pcmcia-cs
> (I did mv pcmcia-cs-3.1.19 pcmcia-cs)
> > cd /usr/src/linux
> (cd /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17)
> > make-kpkg modules_image
> >
> > this makes the modules deb you need.
>
> This is almost exactly what I tried, with any differences shown in
> parens above. Unfortunately, like I wrote, I'm getting some shell
> script error somewhere. Here's the output:
>
> make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs'
> /bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
> /bin/sh: -c: line 1: `set -e ; for d in ; do make -C $d ; done'
> make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs'
> make[2]: *** [build-modules] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs'
> make[1]: *** [kdist_image] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs'
> Module /usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs failed.
>
This may be off base but I have had problems like this on
other systems. It was caused by the shell. The Makefile
needed a Borne shell and I was using a posix shell. Do
both of you have the same /bin/sh?
jim
> Gary
>
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