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Re: 3com network card, trouble w pcmcia-modules



You can keep the package names from being truncated by doing this:
sirius:~$ columns=120;dpkg -l package*|less

Kevin

On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 12:59:27 -0600
Marc Mongeon <mongeon@btinet.net> wrote:

> I'll try to address what I think is the fundamental problem:  your
> PCMCIA modules are not installed.
> 
> On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:29:52PM -0800, David Emerson wrote:
> 
> > I'll start with what appears (to my ignr'nt eyes) to be the problem:
> > 
> > /lib/modules/2.2.20/pcmcia/   does not exist.
> > 
> > /etc/pcmcia/    exists but only contains one empty file, "cis"
> > /etc/pcmcia.conf    does not exist either.
> > 
> > This is probably because the pcmcia-modules package was not installed
> > properly (see below)
> 
> I think you're right about that.  See below.
> 
> > (( (And can someone explain to me why the above command works, but I
> > can't run pcmcia from the init.d directory?)   lakshmi:/etc/init.d#
> > pcmcia restart   bash: pcmcia: command not found
> > ))
> 
> The "current directory" (.) is not in your command path (nor should it
> be, as this is considered a security risk).  Use "./pcmcia restart".
> 
> > # apt-get install pcmcia-modules
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > Package pcmcia-modules has no available version, but exists in the
> > database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a
> > dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available
> > with the contents of sources.list
> > E: Package pcmcia-modules has no installation candidate
> > #
> 
> The package you want to install is "pcmcia-modules-2.2.xx" where "xx"
> matches the revision of your installed kernel.  Unfortunately, "dpkg
> --list" truncates package names (a real pain, in my opinion), so it's
> difficult to determine the exact name of the package to pass to
> "apt-get".  For that reason, I usually use "dselect" to find and install
> problematic packages like that.
> 
> Hmmm... I thought I'd read something in your original post that lead me
> to believe you were running a 2.2 kernel... I'm not sure it that's the
> case; anyway, if you're running a 2.4 kernel, the package name will be
> "kernel- pcmcia-2.4.xx".
> 
> > 
> > # apt-get install pcmcia-cs
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > Sorry, pcmcia-cs is already the newest version.
> > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0  not
> > upgraded.#
> > 
> 
> Looks like this is installed fine.
> 
> Marc
> 
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