Package: pcmciautils
Version: 014-4
System: Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Lenny
I have a pretty old 16-Bit PCMCIA non PnP card slot in a notebook and
therefore
cat /etc/default/pcmciautils
PCMCIA="true"
PCIC="i82365"
PCIC_OPTS=
CORE_OPTS=
/etc/init.d/pcmciautils is supposed to "modprobe -b i82365". But during
system booting I get
Usage: modprobe [-v] [-V] [-C config-file] [-n] [-i] [-q] [-b] [-o
<modname>] [ --dump-modversions ] <modname> [parameters...]
modprobe -r [-n] [-i] [-v] <modulename> ...
modprobe -l -t <dirname> [ -a <modulename> ...]
Inserting the module by means of modprobe as root on the console just works
fine.
Changing /etc/init.d/pcmciautils such that
114c114
< modprobe -b $PCIC $PCIC_OPTS
---
> sudo modprobe -b $PCIC $PCIC_OPTS
fixes the problem for me. Access rights of modprobe look like this:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 25124 5. Apr 2008 /sbin/modprobe
The PCMCIA slot is of type
Intel ISA PCIC probe:
Vadem VG-468 ISA-to-PCMCIA at port 0x3e0 ofs 0x00, 2 sockets
host opts [0]: none
host opts [1]: none
ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,9,10,11 status change on irq 11
On Debian Etch-and-a-half with pcmciautils 014-3 everything works fine -
though /etc/init.d/pcmciautils didn't change regarding this matter.
There is a second modprobe in the same script, which will most likely suffer
the same problem. However since I don't know whether the sudo is at all a
fix or just a dirty walkaround I didn't mess with it.
I suppose some security policies changed.
Regards,
7oby
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