Bug 48342

Summary:	custom install on a laptop - no pcmcia rpm
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Gerald Teschl <gt>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.3	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Description Gerald Teschl 2001-07-10 10:40:26 UTC

If I do a custom install on a laptop, kernel-pcmcia-cs will not be
automatically selected, which is annoying if you forget to select it
manually.

Comment 1 Matt Wilson 2001-07-10 19:33:27 UTC

you didn't select "Laptop Support"

Comment 2 Matt Wilson 2001-07-10 19:45:30 UTC

I've added a check and forced kernel-pcmcia-cs on for people who didn't select
laptop support

Comment 3 Gerald Teschl 2001-07-25 16:30:33 UTC

I just tested this in beta2 TUI and it was not on!?

Comment 4 Jeremy Katz 2001-07-25 16:58:33 UTC

Which boot image did you use?  (cd, boot.img, bootnet.img, or pcmcia.img)

Comment 5 Gerald Teschl 2001-07-25 20:30:52 UTC

Regular install from cd.

Comment 6 Jeremy Katz 2001-07-30 22:00:33 UTC

This got installed for me last night on my laptop when I tried it -- if you look
on tty3, do you see any mention of the pcmcia controller?

Comment 7 Gerald Teschl 2001-08-01 21:03:11 UTC

Nedd to test again. However, since the installer selects "Latop Install"
as default it must have found my pcmcia controller.

Will the "Laptop Support" be marked as selected in the package selection
dialog?

Comment 8 Jeremy Katz 2001-08-01 21:05:14 UTC

No, the kernel-pcmcia-cs package is just silently selected and installed similar
to how the SMP kernel is selected and installed if you do an installation on an
SMP machine.

Comment 9 Gerald Teschl 2001-08-01 21:07:49 UTC

Ah! So then we had a misunderstanding. However, shouln't the "Laptop Support"
be autoselected? This seems more resonable to me.

Comment 10 Jeremy Katz 2001-08-01 21:19:06 UTC

Changing the default selections on the package groups screen based on criteria
such as having a pcmcia controller isn't going to happen any time soon since it
requires major changes to the way that all of the package selection magic works.
 The only other packages in the Laptop Support group are irda-utils and
wireless-tools, which I'd argue are a lot less commonly needed on laptops than
pcmcia and if someone needs them, then they might as well select laptop support
or they'll install them post-install.  The likelihood that they would need
pcmcia to use their network card to install packages is a good enough reason imo
to make sure kernel-pcmcia-cs gets installed though.

Plus the initial bug was that pcmcia doesn't get installed on a laptop with a
custom install :-)