Well, I've found a quick fix -- uninstall the messed up Mandrake pcmcia-cs
package that looks for the non-existent ide_cs module and replace it with
the Red Hat pcmcia-cs package.  I'm still curious as to why the Mandrake
version looks for ide_cs rather than ide-cs, but oh well.

Cheers,

-Charlie

Charlie Bebber said:
>
> 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
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