Kernel compilation on RH: problem with installation of PCMCIA modules
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Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 20:52:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sandra Loosemore (sandra <AT> shore.net)
To: tomba

When I rebuilt the kernel to enable the APM support, the standard
procedure for making & installing the modules didn't install the
pcmcia modules in /lib/modules with the rest of the kernel modules.
(Symptoms: the modem wouldn't work, ppp would loop endlessly trying to
access it.)  Rather than trying to figure out what went wrong (maybe
the pcmcia modules have to be built separately?), I just copied the
pcmcia subdirectory from the pre-built kernel into the new kernel's
modules directory, and everything worked fine again.

-Sandra

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>From tomba Wed Aug  5 21:03:53 1998
To: sandra <AT> shore.net

That's strange.
In my RH5.0 when I compiled kernel it used the existing
modules directory.
I compiled exactly same kernel version as was originally instaled
(from the same CD: kernel-source-2.0.32-2)
with just the configuration modified.
I did not have to make or install modules.
Maybe the reason for your problem was that you compiled different (newer?)
kernel version?
Usually PCMCIA modules are provided separately from the the kernel source.

Tomasz.

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Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 06:53:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sandra Loosemore (sandra <AT> shore.net)
To: tomba

I followed the "recipe" in the Red Hat installation manual:

make mrproper
make xconfig
make boot
make modules
make modules_install

The manual says to make modules_install even if you didn't build any
new ones.  The modules for the pre-built kernel were in
/lib/modules/2.0.34-1, while this procedure created /lib/modules/2.0.34.

I guess this is really a bug in the Red Hat documentation or Makefiles,
but people who try to install 5.1 on the Inspiron are sure to run into
it.

-Sandra