On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Alex Hewitt USG wrote: > I did that and then noticed that making mrproper erases your previous > kernel configuration.
You may find it easier to RTFM, rather than trying to figure all this out by typing commands at random. :-) There is a Kernel-HOWTO that covers the basics, and there is also much information in $KERNEL_SOURCE/Documentation that can be of help. There is plenty of documentation, believe or not, it is just not well organized towards *finding* it. :-( If, on the other hand, you're happy with just playing, don't let me stop you. :-) > I got a "CardServices version miss-match". Examining the messages file > showed that when I boot from a the good kernel I get PCMCIA version 3.1.29 > but when I boot from my new kernel I see PCMCIA version 3.1.21. The part of a Linux system that handles PCMCIA is called "pcmcia-cs". It was not integrated with the mainline kernel *at all* in 2.2, and even in 2.4, the kernel falls behind. Check out <http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net> and go from there. You may need to update the kernel source with new stuff, or your userland tools, or both. > The worse part is that acpi support which prompted all this is not > considered to be release quality ... I was going to mention that. I wanted to play around with ACPI on Linux myself. So I tried compiling a kernel with ACPI support. I discovered that (1) broke a couple things that used to work, (2) effectively disabled power management completely and (3) was not much use anyway, since there were no good ACPI userland tools yet. That was all about six to eight months ago, though, so I figured maybe things have improved. Perhaps they have not. :-) -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
