I've got a Sony VAIO F580 in which I swap my NIC and CompactFlash card adapter in the PCMCIA slots (so I can mount my digital camera's pics locally). When I run Mandrake shipped kernels, life is good and everything works fine. When I compile my own kernel and enable only the things I need, the only thing that isn't working is the CompactFlash card adapter.
First, and perhaps someone on the list could explain this, the Mandrake kernels ship with the ide_cs module which is required for this device. The problem here is that in the *real* kernel, it's not called ide_cs, but rather ide-cs. So when /etc/init.d/pcmcia starts, I get the following in my syslog: --- Jan 23 09:52:05 hector cardmgr[1655]: socket 0: ATA/IDE Fixed Disk Jan 23 09:52:05 hector cardmgr[1655]: executing: 'modprobe ide_cs' Jan 23 09:52:05 hector cardmgr[1655]: + modprobe: Can't locate module ide_cs Jan 23 09:52:05 hector cardmgr[1655]: modprobe exited with status 255 Jan 23 09:52:05 hector cardmgr[1655]: module /modules/2.4.17-2/pcmcia/ide_cs ..o not available Jan 23 09:52:07 hector cardmgr[1655]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: Resource temporarily unavailable --- I get around this issue by putting and alias for ide_cs in my /etc/modules.conf and running depmod, but why has Mandrake re-named this kernel module and built pcmcia to look for it as opposed to the legitimate ide-cs? When it does load, I still don't get any love: --- Jan 23 09:53:59 hector cardmgr[1715]: socket 0: ATA/IDE Fixed Disk Jan 23 09:53:59 hector cardmgr[1715]: executing: 'modprobe ide_cs' Jan 23 09:54:01 hector cardmgr[1715]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: Resource temporarily unavailable --- I don't think this happened when I had 8.0 installed, but I can't honestly remember. But you can see that it recognises the card but for some reason, it's not able to get it completely. A friend running RH 7.1 and I were playing with it this weekend and he didn't have any problem at all (nor did his look for the wrongly named ide_cs module). I'd sure appreciate any info anyone might have. Thanks in advance, -Charlie -- GPG Key fingerprint = 4F36 EC4F 2F2C 5F59 9690 09E5 4C0F 9DB0 8623 53CE
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