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Well, after spending about 6 hours working through include files and reinstalls of system components to determine that my previous compile problems were due to a glibc upgrade via autorpm (I don't know yet if it is a compatability issue with PCMCIA and the new GLIBC or if it was a install failure), I was able to get PCMCIA to compile.
HOWEVER I have found that I am not out of the woods by a long shot. I am installing PCMCIA on a Redhat 6.1 smp machine in order to test/use a wireless network card (via an IDE card with a Ricoh controller - according to the HOWTO this SHOULD work). The kernel version I am running is the stock RedHat 2.2.12-20smp supplied with their distro. However, whatever I do - including using ./Configure --current I get complaints that my source tree is 2.2.12-20 whilst the kernel I am running is 2.2.12-20smp. Now color me idiot or something, but AFAIK there is no such thing as a 2.2.12-20smp source tree. In my experience smp kernels are generated via compilation with a particular make option set during the configuration process. After setting this bit and performing the compilation I end up with 'symbols not found' during the install and errors like:
Starting PCMCIA services: modules/lib/modules/2.2.12-20smp/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.o: kernel-module version mismatch
/lib/modules/2.2.12-20smp/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.o was compiled for kernel version 2.2.12-20
while this kernel is version 2.2.12-20smp.
/lib/modules/2.2.12-20smp/pcmcia/i82365.o: kernel-module version mismatch
/lib/modules/2.2.12-20smp/pcmcia/i82365.o was compiled for kernel version 2.2.12-20
while this kernel is version 2.2.12-20smp.
/lib/modules/2.2.12-20smp/pcmcia/ds.o: kernel-module version mismatch
/lib/modules/2.2.12-20smp/pcmcia/ds.o was compiled for kernel version 2.2.12-20
while this kernel is version 2.2.12-20smp.
cardmgr.
Now I read the statement about CONFIG_MODVERSIONS in the HOWTO - the question is, is this a problem with the version checking mechanism, and my installation is actually ok, or is there some other problem that I need to take care of to get a working PCMCIA...?? In the meantime the version that I compiled or my single CPU laptop seems to be at least recognizing the card, and enabling eth0, so I am at least part way there.
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