On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Bruce Sass wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> > > Trying to install potato from scratch on a NEC Versa 4050H (P90MHz),
> > > depmod reports unresolved symbols for all the pcmcia modules. I have
> > > zircom and 3com pcmcia NICs, but I can't get the modules for either to
> > > load because of this unresolved symbol problem. Without the NIC, I can't
> > > get past the base install.
> > >
> > > What can I do to fix this?
> >
> > This is a known problem with the Potato installation system. Check the
> > debian-boot mailing list archives for a manual work around; that
> > failing, subscribe to debian-boot and ask.
>
> Ah, so it is -- thanks.
>
> I couldn't find any work-around so I've just asked on the boot list. I may
> have to load slink, then just upgrade to potato (and build my own 2.2.14
> kernel). That should work, shouldn't it? It looks like just the boot
> floppies are mismatched, which wouldn't affect a slink->potato upgrade, I
> figure.
Well, the pcmcia stuff is separate from the kernel so you would need to
build both (that is the impression I get from monitoring debian-boot).
If by "load slink" you mean re-install slink, then it may be best to try
the latest Potato boot floppies release. 2.2.11 was just released (last
night) and fixes some (all?) of the modconf related problems. There was
also an upload of new pcmcia packages a day or two ago (check
incoming.debian.org if they are not in the ftp archive yet). I'd give
bf-2.2.11 a try.
later,
Bruce
