Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 18056
Failure to install pcmcia when compiling kernel
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:59 EDT
Hey The box is dual boot Dell Inspiron 3800 and I needed to have ntfs module (why ohhh why you don't include it with the regular kernel, I always have to compile my own kernel to have it on every desktop i have), so I've decided to compile my own kernel After unpacking, compiling, installing the kernel from your rpm, i discovered that pcmcia part (modules) wasn't installed, so I went to /usr/src/linux-2.2.16/pcmcia-cs-3.1.19, did "make clean", make config, make install. Still no pcmcia in /lib/modules/linux-2.2.16-mine. Then after downloading pcmcia-3.1.20 and doing make config I've discovered that config.mk and config.out are different from the ones in pcmcia-3.1.19. Because your pcmcia's has PREFIX=/var/tmp/kernel-linux...... (smth like that) in the config.mk and config.out, it never got copied into /lib/modules/lernel-2.2.16-mine and was still left intact in the /var/tmp/kernel-.... So after deleting PREFIX=/var/.. from config.out and config.mk the problem went away and was installed successfully Please fix it and put ntfs module with write support into the regular kernel (you even have minix and OS/2 fs support, but no ntfs) or tell me why you don't want it to be in the regular kernel rpm.
We don't believe the kernel NTFS is a supportable option. Nor does it work with Windows 2000. (Left open because the pcmcia thing does look like a bug)
NTFS write is known to corrupt and destroy filesystems, and is hence not enabled. The PCMCIA problem: the path in the config files is correct if you attempt to build a new kernel RPM with PCMCIA. Since you are attempting to build it "non-RPM", the path is wrong......