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On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 19:15:25 -0400 |
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"Wayne Ringling" <wayne@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> I think I have figured out that I need to load a device driver for the |
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> FastTrak 100 raid. But unlike other distro's that allow a driver disk to be |
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> used in the boot process, gentoo dosen't that I can see. Is there a way to |
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> load a driver for a device that is not already in the distro. Or is there |
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> another way I can install this system? |
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<selfish> |
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Which driver would that be ? I have an FT100 controller that I cannot utilize on my linux system currently. Is this a binary FT100 driver ? If so, is it for the 2.2 or 2.4 kernel ? |
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The simplest way of loading a driver on a completely new system would probably be to put the driver binary (compiled against 2.4.4-ac8, iirc) on a floppy (the installation image kernel support FAT), mount the floppy on /mnt/floppy (you might need to make the dir) and insmod it manually. |
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Kind regards, |
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Karl T |
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