I grew a little tired of compiling kernels with pcmcia support, and then not
being able to use my pcmcia hardware, so I decided to take a break from it
for a while and try a pre-compiled kernel
(kernel-image-2.4.17-386_2.4.17-1_i386.deb). I noticed in the description
for pcmcia-cs that:
The actual kernel modules required for this package are contained in the
pcmcia-modules-package, where is the version of the kernel for which the
modules have been compiled.
So I downloaded the appropriate version of pcmcia-modules, and attempted to
install it. But it didn't work:
icosagon:~# dpkg -i /floppy/*.deb
Selecting previously deselected package psmcia-modules-2.4.17-386.
(Reading database ... 20503 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking pcmcia-modules-2.4.17-386 (from .../pcmcia-modules-2.4.17-386_
3.1.31-3k1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /floppy/pcmcia-modules-2.4.17-386_3.1.31-3k1
_i386.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite `/lib/modules/2.4.17-386/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.o',
which
is also in package kernel-image-2.4.17-386
Errors were encountered while processing:
/floppy/pcmcia-modules-2.4.17-386_3.1.31-3k1_i386.deb
icosagon:~# dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
After that happened, I took a closer look at the description for
pcmcia-modules:
This package contains the set of loadable kernel modules for the PCMCIA
Card Services applications program interface. They have been compiled to
be
compatible with the kernel in the kernel-image-2.4.17-386 package version
2.4.17-1.
My system is mostly a combination of testing and sid, with a few
non-essential potato packages not yet upgraded. What should I do about this?
Should I just force it? All of these packages are the version that is in
sid.
Thanks for any help,
Seneca
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