After an upgrade from RH7 to RH7.1 (on a Dell Inspiron 3200), I was unable to start the pcmcia service. This is the error message I got: "starting PCMCIA services: modules /lib/modules/2.4.2-4/pcmcia/yenta_socket.o: invalid parameter parm_do_scan /lib/modules/2.4.2-2/pcmcia/ds.o: init_module: Operation not permitted Hint : insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters" I can fixed this by commenting out or removing this line from /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia: PCIC_OPTS=do_scan=0 I did not add this line to the /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia file: either it was left over from the previous RH7 install or it was added during the upgrade to 7.1.
Well, it's important for us to know whether the file was already like that or if the 7.1 installer did that. But that's kind of hard to reproduce now... Do you see a file called /etc/syconfig/pcmcia.rpmsave?
No, I do not have a pcmcia.rpmsave file in /etc/sysconfig/. I do have a /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia.rpmnew file, but the modification time (Mar 11,pre-7.1) indicates that it's left over from a previous update.
When you say "pre-7.1"...do you mean one of the beta releases for 7.1? I hope you weren't trying to upgrade from a beta to the final release... :)
No. I upgraded from the regular RH7 release. I have never installed a RH beta on this machine. I suppose it's possible that an update/errata package for RH7 might have witten this file, but looking over the list of updates/errata for RH7 (http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/rh7-errata.html), I don't see any likely candidates.
Ok...can you attach the pcmcia.rpmnew and pcmcia files? Just curious.
Created attachment 16967 [details] /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia file
Created attachment 16968 [details] /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia.rpmnew file
Brock, do we have any of these machines in house?
We don't have a machine like this in our test lab. Can you attach your /etc/sysconfig/hwconf file?
Created attachment 18650 [details] /etc/sysconfig/hwconf file
This option must have been added by hand. Since this option was added by hand it's up to the user to make adjustments in this config file as options to kernel pcmcia modules change.