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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, David Moberg wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > There is also a pcmcia-cs package in SW10.2 - can I use that instead if I
> > don't have brand-new hardware,
>
> Certainly, but you will obviously need to install SW10.2 glibc for cardmgr
> if you use the precompiled SW10.2 binary.

I want to keep using cardmgr from SW71 if possible.

> > for compilation (I think for any kernel).  I need to make config for the
> > kernel (answering Y or M to PCMCIA things that are in the kernel source
> > code) and then I unpack the pcmcia package to /usr/src/linux-2.4.31 (where
> > I have the kernel source already) and make config for that.

> Where do you see that? I thought that it was supposed to work by unpacking
> the pcmcia package anywhere and then doing Configure and make in the
> pcmcia package. This would build a dynamic cardmgr for the libc in /lib and
> also build modules, if you haven't already built them with the kernel source,
> but it needs to find the kernel source code, probably in
> /lib/modules/VERSION/build or /usr/src/linux.

Kernel source code is in /usr/src/linux-2.4.31 to which I symlinked 
/usr/src/linux and then symlinked /lib/modules/2.4.31/build to that.

> > make bzImage and it makes all the PCMCIA modules as well as everything
> > else?  Can I make just a few PCMCIA modules instead of all of them?
>
> The pcmcia-cs package will only build modules if you haven't already
> enabled PCMCIA modules in your .config.

The kernels I already compiled have CONFIG_PCMCIA=N.  I will recompile 
with CONFIG_PCMCIA=M.  Trying to sort out your double-negative, do you 
mean I should recompile my kernel with PCMCIA as modules, and use 
precompiled modules from that package?  (As well as recompiling the 
modules from my new config, since I will be leaving out a lot of things 
like sound and framebuffer and most scsi support).  Does the package 
contain pcmcia source code AND modules?  I can't tell them apart, if they 
end in .o


Normally you only build modules if you DO enable modules.  But the 
instructions in the package match yours.  I am confused (TM).


> > Do I really need to use cardmgr from the pcmcia package or can I use the
> > one from Slackware 7.1 that works with BL2.1 and kernel 2.2.16?

> I bet that there are so many changes between the 2.2 and 2.4 kernels that
> you cannot use the old cardmgr.

But I can't use the new cardmgr without a new glibc and I don't want 
to install a new glibc because it is larger and really not suitable for a 
computer with 16MB RAM.  Maybe the old one will still work.

Should I recompile cardmgr from recent source code, with the libc I will 
be using on my computers (from SW81)?

Can I use pcmcia modules WITHOUT cardmgr, manually inserting and removing 
them?  insmod pcmciacore_cs.o insmod ds.o insmod i3865.o (?sp) insmod 
serial_cs.o etc.?

I wish someone would get USB-storage working with kernel 2.2.X.  It works 
with DOS 7 for our three cameras and one memory stick and one card reader 
(all but the other card reader).

> David