on Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 09:31:21PM -0600, Nathan E Norman (nnorman@micromuse.com) wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 06:07:20PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > on Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 07:28:50PM +0100, Philipp Schulte (p.schulte@matrix.uni-duisburg.de) wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 01:16:33PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > >
> > > > I was somewhat surprised to see that there were no PCMCIA modules
> > > > included with the 2.2.18pre21 kernel package. Where do I get PCMCIA
> > > > sources? There is the obvious pcmcia-source -- 'dat the beast?
> > >
> > > http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net ?
> > > Or are you talking about the deb? pcmcia-source worked fine here.
> >
> > The latter. It's not immediately clear that pcmcia-source is necesary.
> > Still need to play with this.
>
> It's fairly painless if you use kernel package. The pcmcia-source
> stuff should install in /usr/src/modules iirc. You then go into the
> kernel source tree, do make {menu,x}config as you prefer, make-kpkg
> clean, then make-kpkg --revision=local.2.2.18-1 kernel_image
> modules_image. You'll end up with two debs in /usr/src that, once
> installed, will make your laptop happy ;)
>
> Notes: dpkg seems to get pissed if I install the kernel-image and the
> pcmcia-modules packages at the same time, so I always install the
> kernel-image deb first. Also, you are well advised to place these
> packages on hold once installed.
Thanks, that's just the missing-link documentation/tip I was looking
for. Would have probably stumbled through it pretty easily on my own,
mostly trying to take care of some other business in the meantime.
> This reminds me - I need to upgrade my laptop before I travel tomorrow
> :)
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