[NBLUG/talk] my laptop & wireless ethernet

[E Frank Ball]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 10:40:39AM -0700, Micxz (lovedialup.com) wrote:
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} How can you tell what support your kernel is compiled with or without?

One thing you can do is look and see what kernel modules are available
for loading.  They are under /lib/modules/2.4.20-9smp/kernel (you may
have a different kernel, but it is under /lib/modules/).

If you are using a stock redhat kernel then load the matching kernel
source package and look under /usr/src/linux-2.4.XX-XX/configs/
And look at the config file used to make your kernel.
There you will see stuff like this:

#
# Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)
#
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y
CONFIG_EL1=m
CONFIG_EL2=m
CONFIG_ELPLUS=m
CONFIG_EL16=m
CONFIG_EL3=m
# CONFIG_EWRK3 is not set
CONFIG_3C359=m
CONFIG_3C515=m

It's not pretty, but you can interpret some of it.

The best way would be to start configuring the kernel as you would for a
new kernel compile using the existing configuration file.  Mike will
show how to do this on Tuesday.

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at efball.com