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I ugraded my toshiba laptop from redhat 7.3 to 9.0 using apt-get and PCMCIA lan card (internet) but after the upgrade,
1) PCMCIA modules are not loading at boot time. lsmod does not list pcmcia_core, yenta_socket and ds. But they successfully get loaded when I do insmod pcmcia_core, yenta_socket and ds. How do make it load automatically at boot time. Also, in services pcmcia is not listed.
2) I had gnome working before but after upgrade gnome is not working. I am using startx. What do I need to add in .xinitrc?? there is no gnome-session or gnome-wm any where. Icewm is working with exec icewm
3) The black screen terminal size (when I press Ctrl+Alt+F1 or F2 or F3 .. so on ) is small, however the graphical mode is showing full screen
hey masand,
I installed kernel-pcmcia-cs package and scheduling the pcmcia service at the boot time but still the modules dont get loaded automatically and the network card light does not glow untill I manually load the modules using insmod
Regarding gnome, I installed gnome-session package and gnome is working fine.
this might be happening since u have upgraded using apt-get and it might not have changed ur /etc/modules.conf or /etc/modprobe are respomsible for the same
so u need to look into them
i have't ugraded like this so his is just a guess from my side
i have though dited modpraobe.conf to adjust somthing when i upgraded my kernel from 2.4 to 2.6
also why didn't u try upgarding frm the CDs or the full new install
Hey Thanks Yaar,
I will check up the modules.conf and modprobe. Thanks for your help. I didn't do it from cd cause I donot have a cdrom drive in my laptop and no floppy either. it is one of those slim laptops. Actually I did some mistake in my lilo.conf and it is not booting up now. I am buying an external floppy drive to fix the lilo. I have a usb external floppy but it doesnot boot into it.
But it was good experience upgrading with apt-get. I would definately use apt-get in the future to install/upgrade packages because it automatically takes care of the dependency issue of red-hat. Previously I used to hate Red-hat for this reason and I was happy with Slackware. But noe since there is apt-get for rH too, i started liking it. I installed gnome, KDE, mplayer, xine, wine and many other softwares with apt-get.
Sorry for the delay in response. I was out of town.
I tried adding the modules name in modules.conf, but it gave incorrect syntax. How do you add the modules in modules.conf. I just wrote the names of the modules.
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