Linux-wlan install breaks Fedora test2 pcmcia

[Robert L Cochran]

You need to follow Gerry's email again, making sure that check mark 
mentioned below is really there:


"Log onto Red Hat Network.

Select the Systems Tab.

Select your Severn system.

Click on Alter Channel Subscriptions.

Place a check by Severn Beta 2 (i386) Updates.

Click on Change Subscriptions.

The next time you run up2date from the panel applet, it will have this
channel available."



My system is applying dozens of updates now, including a kernel version 
newer than yours.

Bob



fedora-test-list wrote:

> Bob,
> 
> Ran up2date, but it tells me nothing is available.  I have read Gerry's
> message and I think I have it running right.  I am subscribed to "Severn
> Beta 2 (i386):
> 
> "Your system if fully updated.  No new packages needed"
> 
> But:
> $ uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.22-1.2061.nptl #1 Mon Sep 22 14:39:36 EDT
> 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> Any ideas?  Thanks ...
> 
> Louis
> 
> 
> 
>>You might want to run an up2date session because there are several dozen
>>
>>  packages waiting for up2date, including a new kernel, kernel source,
>>initscripts...all of these will be of interest to you. You have to
>>subscribe to the 'Severn Beta 2 (i386) Updates' channel of RHN (see
>>earlier email by Gerry Tool on how to do this.)
>>
>>Actually I'm groaning a bit because there is a new kernel, and I
>>especially recompiled the original kernel for the Intersil 54g cardbus
>>driver being developed by Luis Rodriguez' group at Rutgers. I'll see if
>>the recompiled original kernel + the new driver + the new SMC wireless
>>card play well together and get me connected to the internet.
>>
>>Bob
>>
>>
>>fedora-test-list wrote:
>>
>>
>>>After installing linux-wlan on Fedora test2 (Vaio R505TS ACPI Laptop),
>>>pcmcia breaks with the following upon startup:
>>>
>>>[root at localhost linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre12]# /etc/init.d/pcmcia start
>>>Starting PCMCIA services: modulesmodprobe: Can't locate module
>>>pcmcia_core.o modprobe: Can't locate module yenta_socket.o
>>>modprobe: Can't locate module ds.o
>>> cardmgr.
>>>
>>>In /var/log/messages:
>>>Oct  2 23:35:42 localhost cardmgr[8783]: starting, version is 3.1.31
>>>Oct  2 23:35:42 localhost cardmgr[8783]: no pcmcia driver in
>>>/proc/devices Oct  2 23:35:42 localhost cardmgr[8783]: exiting
>>>
>>>I am using pre12 in this example but I have tried other versions of
>>>the linux-wlan code and the result of breaking pcmcia has been the
>>>same.  Any help would be appreciated as to how to get the driver
>>>working, or how to get my old pcmcia working.  Re-ran depmod -a.  Also
>>>rebooted.  To compile linux-wlan drivers, they require that you have
>>>the pcmcia source on the system and configured, I downloaded 3.1.22
>>>and threw it in /usr/src/ and ran make config on it.
>>>
>>>Kernel Params:
>>>acpi=on nogui      (also tried with pci=biosirq)
>>>
>>>$ uname -a
>>>Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.22-1.2061.nptl #1 Mon Sep 22 14:39:36
>>>EDT 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>>>
>>>
>>>Starting pcmcia: (Before linux-wlan install)
>>>Oct  2 23:22:10 localhost kernel: Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
>>>Oct  2 23:22:10 localhost kernel:   options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm] Oct
>>> 2 23:22:10 localhost kernel: Yenta IRQ list 0cb8, PCI irq9
>>>Oct  2 23:22:10 localhost kernel: Socket status: 30000410
>>>
>>>
>>>Linux-wlan ./Configure:
>>>linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre12]# ./Configure
>>>
>>>-------------- Linux WLAN Configuration Script -------------
>>>The default responses are correct for most users.
>>>
>>>Build Prism2.x PCMCIA Card Services (_cs) driver? (y/n) [y]:
>>>Build Prism2 PLX9052 based PCI (_plx) adapter driver? (y/n) [n]: Build
>>>Prism2.5 native PCI (_pci) driver? (y/n) [n]:
>>>Build Prism2.5 USB (_usb) driver? (y/n) [n]:
>>>Linux source directory [/usr/src/linux]:
>>>The kernel source tree is version 2.4.22-1.2061.nptl.
>>>The current kernel build date is Mon Sep 22 14:39:36 2003.
>>>Alternate target install root directory on host []:
>>>PCMCIA script directory [/etc/pcmcia]:
>>>  Module install directory [/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2061.nptl]:
>>>It looks like you have a System V init file setup.
>>>Prefix for build host compiler? (rarely needed) []:
>>>Build for debugging (see doc/config.debug) (y/n) [n]:
>>>Configuration successful.
>>>
>>>
>>>Files linux-wlan installs:
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>>>
>>
>>--
>>Bob Cochran
>>Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
>>http://greenbeltcomputer.biz/
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