Re: 2.4.17 kernel & pcmcia problem

[Tom Allison <tallison1@twmi.rr.com>]

Brian Mays wrote:

> tallison1@twmi.rr.com (Tom Allison) wrote:
>
>
> > I have built a kernel and modules images and have tried to install 
> > them both.  I have to do a dpkp -i --force-overwrite in order to get 
> > them to install.  The error is related to a duplicate of pcmcia_core 
> > modules.
>
> It's not a duplicate of the modules.  Instead, there are two sets of
> drivers, the drivers supplied by the 2.4 kernel and the drivers provided
> by the pcmcia-cs source.  The kernel-image package now, incorrectly,
> includes some symlinks from the /lib/modules/<k>/pcmcia directory to the
> kernel modules located elsewhere in the /lib/modules/<k> directory tree.
> Since these symlinks are located in the location where the standalone
> drivers have always resided, a conflict occurs and "--force-overwrite"
> is necessary.
>
> See Bug#128662 for more information.
>
> - Brian

But I built my own pcmcia-modules package and kernel-image package 
from the 2.4.17 kernel-source and 3.1.36 pcmcia-source.
You mean that these are still building bad links?

I have tried using the --force-overwrite option when installating the 
pcmcia-modules package and it still does not work.  I am able to get 
past the problem with the pcmcia-core problem.  But the specific 
drivers I am using (orinoco, orinoco_cs) are still failing to modprobe 
successfully.

Now what I am seeing is a versioning problem between these drivers in 
the two pacages.