Question: Obvious that I am a newbie 

Forum: PCMCIA Installation and Configuration Issues
Re: Question: Adaptec 1480 SCSI not quite working, other PCMCIA does (S. Allen)
Re: Kernel compatibility issue: fixed in current drivers (David Hinds)
Date: 2000, Jun 07
From: S. Allen allen18

Sorry to bother you! 1. I should have noticed that the 1480 is in your list of updates, and that there is a separate SCSI forum with postings about it. Thanks for the very prompt response. 2. However, I have spent several hours trying (and a call) to execute the simple command make config in the new pcmcia directory! (I used version 3.1.15 because of your posting on May 15 to Barton). --the question is about getting the source. I used the red hat upgrade manager to install the kernal tree, and it looked like it was in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES (but I didn't check carefully for files, as there are a lot of them--did I miss the directory?). (Note: turned off kernal* exceptions in the upgrade manager, it looked like the package was installed properly). 2a. Then ran config in the pcmcia directory and it said the tree was incomplete (I typed /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES) in the first question. The config quit at this point. 3. Then tried the manual method-- followed your download instructions (the HOWTO is invaluable) and had a /usr/src/linux directory. My kernel is 2.2.14-5.0 so I downloaded the 2.2.14 tar. Put the /linux directory in /usr/src/ -- and used the default for the answer to the first question. I got a warning about version conflict between subtree 14.0 and 14-5.0, so stopped. 3a. Noticed that the printout in the posting above by Barton on May 18 did not have this warning message and he was using Redhat 6.2. i.e. it verfied the 2.2.14-5.0 subtree. --So, how should I proceed? Sorry to be so uninformed!

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Wrong kernel source package Re: Question: Obvious that I am a newbie (S. Allen) Date: 2000, Jun 07 From: David Hinds <dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org>

Red Hat has a kernel SRPM file (kernel-2.2.14-5.0.src.rpm) that will install stuff in a subdirectory of /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES, but this is not what you want. The SRPM files are used if you want to create a kernel RPM for distribution, which is not what you want to do. The kernel source is all in there, but it is in an odd place and you would need to do additional steps to get it extracted in a useful form. There are also kernel sources in a regular RPM that installs them in /usr/src/linux. This RPM is kernel-source-2.2.14-5.0.i386.rpm and is the one you want. -- Dave

1. Ok: SCSI working, now on to the next! Thanks by S. Allen, 2000, Jun 08 1. Note: A second issue, also by S. Allen, 2000, Jun 08 2. I think the driver side is all fine by David Hinds, 2000, Jun 08

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