[ltp] PCMCIA problem

[Thomas Hood]

 --- "Dean L.Hedin" <dhedin@vsi.net> wrote: > This is somewhat thinkpad
related.  I find it convienent to transfer data 
> between my thinkpad and my desktop via PCMCIA flash cards.
> 
> I have setup my new home PC with RH71.  Some time after the install I 
> transfered my internal PCMCIA read/write unit from my old PC to my new 
> machine.
I presume you mean your hard disk drive.
> I then downloaded the latest PCMCIA tarball and did the usual configure, 
> make, make install.
> 
> My problem is that unit will not give me the happy beeps when I install a ATA
> 
> flash card.  However , if I install a PCMCIA modem it will work fine.
> 
> I traced the problem down to the following in the  /var/log/messages:
> 
> Aug  1 19:58:42 localhost cardmgr[555]: shutting down socket 1
> Aug  1 19:58:42 localhost cardmgr[555]: executing: 'modprobe -r ide_cs'
> Aug  1 19:58:49 localhost cardmgr[555]: initializing socket 0
> Aug  1 19:58:49 localhost cardmgr[555]: socket 0: ATA/IDE Fixed Disk
> Aug  1 19:58:50 localhost cardmgr[555]: executing: 'modprobe ide_cs'
> Aug  1 19:58:50 localhost cardmgr[555]: + modprobe: Can't locate module
> ide_cs
> Aug  1 19:58:50 localhost cardmgr[555]: modprobe exited with status 255
> Aug  1 19:58:50 localhost cardmgr[555]: module 
> /lib/modules/2.4.2-2smp/pcmcia/ide_cs.o not available
> Aug  1 19:58:51 localhost cardmgr[555]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: 
> Resource temporarily unavailable
> Aug  1 19:58:59 localhost cardmgr[555]: shutting down socket 0
> Aug  1 19:58:59 localhost cardmgr[555]: executing: 'modprobe -r ide_cs'
> Aug  1 20:07:23 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module 
> char-major-81
> 
> 
> Seems like it can't find ide_cs.o   I compared modules.dep with my Thinkpad
> and everything jives the same.  But if I type "modprobe ide_cs" I get the 
> same "Can't locate module ide_cs" message.
> 
> The ide_cs.o and ide-cs.o file/symlinks are present and in the proper 
> locations under /lib/modules/2.4.2-2smp/../  and the paths in modules.dep
> match up.
> 
> All other PCMCIA configuration files in /etc/ , /etc/pcmcia look OK.
> 
> How do I make it "see" ide_cs.o ?
Make sure that the name ('ide_cs' or 'ide-cs') in /etc/pcmcia/config
corresponds
to the name of the loadable kernel module ('ide_cs.o' or 'ide-cs.o') under
/lib.
As an experiment, install the module by hand using "insmod <filename>".
// Thomas
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