disabling pcmcia support in RH9

chozzie · 12-17-2003, 11:21 PM

Hi,
I wanted to compile my kernel with PCMCIA support disabled so that I can install prism54 drivers for my 3com officeconnect wireless PCMCIA card.
If my configuration file for my kernel (/boot/config-2.4.20-8) there is a parameter called
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CONFIG_PCMCIA=m
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I wanted to know what the m stands for? module? and whether to disable PCMCIA support you have to change the value of this parameter, and to what.

Thanks.

beyer42 · 12-18-2003, 02:32 AM

m means loadable kernel modules and will be built just during the make modules, and installed under /lib/modules during make modules_install

y means to compile it into the kernel during make bzImage

n means no, neither compiled into kernel or as a loadable module.

http://prism54.org/Documentation/ says to set it to n.

Also See the kernel rebuilding HOWTO thread under Redhat forum, it has really good info.

chozzie · 12-18-2003, 11:09 PM

great.
I've compiled the kernel with PCMCIA support disabled...
Thanks for the links also.

H.