The kernels for FC6 donot have the pcmcia driver modulas for older isa/non cardbus sockets. kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 kernel-2.6.20-1.2952.fc6 kernel-2.6.20-1.2962.fc6 At least done. The kernel config files show # CONFIG_I82365 is not set # CONFIG_TCIC is not set from dmesg: isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: Card 'ACTIONTEC PNP PCMCIA ADAPTER' isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total kudzu -p shows the socket on my desktop as: class: SOCKET bus: MISC detached: 0 driver: i82365 desc: "Generic i82365-compatible PCMCIA controller" Why are these modules not being built anymore?
Forgot to add, I had to turn on isapnp as well to get the socket configured at all. It doesn't show up at all with the stock kernels. Not having much luck building a kernel though. I really don't understand the SElinux and xen stuff.
?(In reply to comment #1) > Forgot to add, I had to turn on isapnp as well to get the socket configured at > all. It doesn't show up at all with the stock kernels. > ISAPNP is enabled in our kernels. PNPBIOS is not, however. What kind of machine is this? Maybe we can just add support for 82365 to the 586 kernel if that's what it is.
Not sure about the ISA thing now. I got distracted for a while. But, after I booted the latest, non-xen kernel, kudzu doesn't show it and it's not listed in the logs. The machine is an 800 MHz SlotA Athlon (Thunderbird) on a MSI 6167 boar with an AMD 750/751 chip set. I haven't found a PCI based PCMCIA socket that I liked enough to upgrade the system. The Socket is an ACTIONTEC PC-700 (pn: AD70000-02) <http://www.actiontec.com/support/readers/pc700.html> I paid $65 for it in '98 and it still works (as do the other parts I bought then). I don't boot from it, so If there's a user space tool to configure it (like the old isapnp tools?) that's fine. But I still need the driver. (I also had trouble when I tried to install FC6 on my Gatway Solo Pro 9300 which has a yenta socket in the laptop and the docking station. Runs RHL9 fine, but boot from CD didn't find the NIC for a network install. Of course a 600MHz PII w/96MB isn't really enough for FC6 or 7 is it?)
Correction, it was in the xen kernel I guess, it is in the log with 2.6.22.1-32.fc6.
Maybe my last comment was missunderstood. I see the listing in the kernel log for ISAPNP with the normal kernel, but not the xen kernel. Same for weather kudzu reports it or not. But neither kernel has the i82365 module needed to use it. So, how do I get the module I need? Why is it no longer built? Is they documentation somewhere as to what packages to install for the kernel source now, and how to build a custom kernel? The last release I did stuff like this for was FC1, and much has changed since then. I don't even understand teh point of XEN or SELinux yet.
Driver added to the config, will be in the next build. Docs for building a custom kernel are at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel
Thank for the Docs. That worked. No to figure out how to get the driver to load automatically.... Next build for the FC6 kernel, or for all kernels? In other words, if I decide to update to FC7 or FC8 am I going to have this same issue again, and need to build a custom kernel for every update? Are there that few users that still need this module? Does it save enough space to make it matter?
(In reply to comment #7) > Next build for the FC6 kernel, or for all kernels? > In other words, if I decide to update to FC7 or FC8 am I going to have this same > issue again, and need to build a custom kernel for every update? > It's been enabled in FC6, F7 and rawhide (F8). > Are there that few users that still need this module? > Does it save enough space to make it matter? > Probably it was disabled because it was thought nobody needed it anymore.
Thanks Chuck. Working well.