Re: Aunt Tillie builds a kernel (was Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution)

Alan Cox
2002-01-14T21:18:24Z

> > > "Crap." Melvin thinks. "I don't remember what kind of network card I
> > > compiled in. Am I going to have to open this puppy up just to eyeball
> > > the hardware?"
> >
> > Uh, no. Try `lsmod`.
>
> He hard-compiled in that driver. lsmod(1) can't see it.

You mean he broke the carefully designed vendor set up by running a poorly
designed autoconfig script ? See if he'd run a sensible modular one he would
be fine