Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 48342
custom install on a laptop - no pcmcia rpm
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:34:36 EDT
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.
you didn't select "Laptop Support"
I've added a check and forced kernel-pcmcia-cs on for people who didn't select laptop support
I just tested this in beta2 TUI and it was not on!?
Which boot image did you use? (cd, boot.img, bootnet.img, or pcmcia.img)
Regular install from cd.
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?
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?
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.
Ah! So then we had a misunderstanding. However, shouln't the "Laptop Support" be autoselected? This seems more resonable to me.
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 :-)