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Bug 91580

Summary: no pcmcia found
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Paulo Roma Cavalcanti <roma>
Component: kernelAssignee: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 7.3CC: ral77, rdieter
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Description Paulo Roma Cavalcanti 2003-05-24 21:20:21 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Linux 2.4.20 i686) Opera 6.12  [en]

Description of problem:
kernel 2.4.20-13.7


dell inspiron 7500, 512Mb ram

1) from /var/log/messages
module directory /lib/modules/2.4.20-13.7/pcmcia not found.
The directory pcmcia is missing.

2) apmd still broken.
CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y is wrong. Should be disabled. Otherwise
cannot recover from suspended mode.

3) standard kernel 2.4.20 works perfectly.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. just use the kernel
2. 
3.
   

Actual Results:  no pcmcia found and cannot recover from suspendede mode.

Expected Results:  I should be able to use my cards and close the lid of my laptop.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Robert Lomitola 2003-05-27 07:15:04 UTC
The work around is to create the pcmcia directory at /lib/modules/2.4.20-17.7/ and
then manually add the symlinks to the pcmcia drivers.

Comment 2 Robert Lomitola 2003-05-27 07:18:56 UTC
typo on previous fix should be /lib/modules/2.4.20-13.7/

Comment 3 Arjan van de Ven 2003-06-03 10:16:15 UTC
An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. 
This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen 
this bug report if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-187.html