Problems with FC 2 - Touch-pad and PCMCIA Ethernet card

Clive Long rational_comms at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Jun 23 09:58:38 UTC 2004


--- Daniele Masini <d.masini at tiscali.it> wrote: >
Clive Long wrote:
> 
> > **********  Copy ******
> > Yepp, see here:
> > 
> >
>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123457
> > 
> > Quote:
> > The line I changed in /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia is
> 95:
> >         #if ! grep -q pcmcia /proc/devices ; then
> >         if ! cardctl status 2>&1 > /dev/null ;
> then
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > HaJo
> > 
> > ******** End copy ******************
> > 
> > This one-liner fixed a problem I have had for a
> month
> > on a laptop with a PCMCIA network card
> > 
> 
> So, is the line
>           if ! cardctl status 2>&1 > /dev/null ;
> then
> better (for you) than
>           if ! grep -q pcmcia /proc/devices ; then
> ?
> 
> Which module I have to recompile to try to restore
> the old PCMCIA code?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Daniele
> 
> 
>  

The only change I made was to the text in

/etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia 

As I wrote originally

I made NO OTHER changes, no recompiles etc. to get the
PCMCIA NIC working.

I hope this also works for you.

Clive


	
	
		
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