On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 17:53:13 +1000, Neil Brown said:
> On Tuesday July 15, bde@nwlink.com wrote:
> > On my old DELL LM laptop the -2.5 series no longer issues any beeps when
> > a card is inserted.  The problem is in the kernel, as the test program
> > below (extracted from cardmgr) beeps on -2.4, but not on -2.5.
> 
> CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR
> 
> needs to be =y or =m and the module loaded.

Double ARGH.  Now I know *why* I didn't have it.

You also need CONFIG_INPUT_MISC in order to be able to *SEE* this option in menuconfig.