[TriLUG] upgrade to rh 2.4.20-13.7 loses pcmcia

Rodent of Unusual Size Ken.Coar at Golux.Com
Tue Jun 3 14:34:05 EDT 2003


Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
> bah.  when i try to bring up 2.4.20-13.7 on my laptop, it appears
> to be missing some aspect of pcmcia support.  it was downloaded
> with up2date, and i've never h ad trouble with that before, but
> it essentially renders the machine largely useless w/o the network
> cards.

the answer apparently is that this is a not-uncommon but definite
bug in the 2.4.20-13.7 rpm.  the fix is to

# cd /lib/modules/2.4.20-13.7
# ln -s kernel/drivers/pcmcia pcmcia

thanks to victor orlikowski (possibly not on this list) for the fix.
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