pcmcia-cs dilemma

[Net Llama]

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 <bill at celestial.com> 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.

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