make modules_install fails something pcmcia-cs related?

ashak · n00b Joined: 19 Mar 2003 Posts: 11

Hi,

I've recompiled the 2.4.22 kernel on my laptop a number of times, with no problems at all. Fairly recently i've emerged the pcmcia-cs ebuild and got my wireless network card working. I tried to recompile my kernel today to add something I wanted, make dep, make clean, make bzImage and make modules all work fine, but when I come to make modules_install, it gets as far as:

gyaikhom · n00b Joined: 06 Jul 2003 Posts: 19 Location: Edinburgh

I would suggest, you recompile the kernel again. But, check the kernel config with 'make menuconfig' before compiling. I think, you haven't enabled the PCMCIA related stuff as modules in the kernel config, and modules are right now existing in /lib/modules/2.4.22/.

ashak · n00b Joined: 19 Mar 2003 Posts: 11

I tried recompiling everything several times. In the end, I tried to unmerge pcmcia-cs, recompile kernel, modules, install modules (which worked this time), then emerged pcmcia-cs again.

Although from what I could tell, the thing that failed originally, is the final thing done by make modules_install, therefore, I would have thought that all of my other modules were in fact installed. I'm just not sure what the bit that failed is doing, or whether it's possible taht next time, I can just ignore it because my recompiled modules are ok...

astika · Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2003 2:08 am Post subject:

marize · n00b Joined: 16 Mar 2003 Posts: 20 Location: New York, NY

This is not a pcmcia-cs related problem. It has to do with configuring the kernel.
One must set CRC32 support in the kernel.

astika · Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2003 6:13 pm Post subject:

oops.

now how did that get removed? *looks at cat

that is what i get for trying to do a clean make xconfig from memory.
i guarantee i will never leave that out again.

thanks

airflow · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 8:23 pm Post subject:

I had the same problem, but could not solve it by activation the CRC32 support in the kernel alone.

Due to a problem in the actual version of pcmcia-cs, this error also occurs when comiling for a SMP-kernel. Same cryptic error-message, though (which is why I'm appending my post to this thread). Perhaps I can help someone with this information.

regards,
airflow

Muddy · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 3:47 am Post subject:

Airflow I'm compiling for smp and don't want pcmcia but it's giving me that horrid error. Any ideas on how to get past this so I can move on with my install??

airflow · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 8:53 am Post subject:

Sorry Muddy, I can't even make out any error-message in this code... Also I have to say that I'm not good at this things as I'm no programmer. Perhaps someone else?

ciao,
airflow

PS: Oh yes, I have one idea though: I read on the pcmcia.sourcefourge site that the error regarding SMP kernels is removed in the newest beta-version of the pcmcia implementation. Perhaps you should try that. Good luck! :)