for kernel 2.6 and yenta, what to have in /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia?
Mr. Mailing List
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Fri Oct 3 11:48:20 BST 2003
it only stops working after upgrade to 2.6. then i
have to do manual things, which gets the card working,
but no beeping/automatic starting of stuff.
i did have some lockups before when i put yenta_socket
in there for pcic, but maybe that's changed with
3.2.5.
--- Dominik Brodowski <linux at brodo.de> wrote:
> I just read David Hind's PCMCIA-HOWTO again - and it
> states that PCIC may
> either bei "tcic", "i82365" or "yenta-socket".
>
> So for 2.4. the setting of "yenta" should be
> invalid, and for both 2.4. and
> 2.6. "yenta-socket" should work. Nonetheless, the
> distro of your choice
> might have meddled with the original pcmcia-cs
> distribution, it might be
> that this is the reason why things don't work as
> expected.
>
> Dominik
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 06:38:10AM -0700, Mr.
> Mailing List wrote:
> > i had "yenta" for pcic in 2.4.
> >
> > should i leave it as that? i just wonder why it's
> not
> > loading yenta_socket auto, and why i get no beeps
> and
> > auto stuff on card inserts.
> >
> >
> > --- Dominik Brodowski <linux at brodo.de> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 01:53:53PM -0700, Mr.
> > > Mailing List wrote:
> > > > Ok, pcmcia does not beep or auto start on
> insert
> > > of
> > > > card or anything with kernel 2.6. If i
> modprobe
> > > > yenta_socket, then restart pcmcia, then i can
> use
> > > my
> > > > card. but i know with 2.6 it switched from
> module
> > > > yenta to yenta_socket, so doesn't that mean
> > > beeping
> > > > and auto starting things should work as before
> if
> > > i
> > > > change it to PCIC=yenta_socket in
> > > /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia?
> > >
> > > It's still the module "yenta_socket" which has
> to be
> > > loaded, same
> > > as in 2.4. The name only changed internally to
> the
> > > kernel. So you
> > > shouldn't have to change anything in
> > > /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia.
> > >
> > > Dominik
> >
> >
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