THe key thing to remember with pcmcia-cs is that its nothing more than a few binaries (which are not kernel version dependent), and some modules, which are kernel version dependent. The modules are functionally, no different than any other kernel module that you'd use.
--- Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 12:10:36PM -0800, Vern W Heesch wrote: > ... > >So I should remove the rpm from the system and use the tarball? I > guess I'm > >confused because I can't reinstall a rpm that's already installed. > Am I > >missing something simple here and confusing myself? > > I've only done this with Caldera 2.x and up kernels so can't speak > directly > to Mandrake or other distributions. The RPMS seem need to be rebuilt > along > with the kernel are the hwprobe, pcmcia, and iBCS (on 2.2.x kernels). > I've > built RPMS to support iBCS and power management for laptops for > Caldera > eDesktop 2.4 so that I can install them on machines without fiddling > the > individual systems. > > The way I've done this it to build new RPMS starting with the > linux-kernel- > binary package leaving the compiled sources in the RPM BUILD > directory. > Once the kernel RPMS are built, then rebuilding the SRPMS for the > other > packages uses the libraries, headers, etc. from the RPM BUILD > directory > instead of /usr/src/linux. ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - sign up for Fantasy Baseball http://sports.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
