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Yeah, your reply is exact what I mean , but I'm really confused by those modules' names, I can't find any contact between the hard device name and its module name . For example, there is a module named 3c59x.ko , I totally don't know what device it present for , I mean I can't figure out that which module correspond to which device though I know the hard devices consisted of my PC. So I need information about contact between them so that I could know what modules need to be chosen in kernel , also the options of kernel are quiet a lot , there're many features that I never heard , I want to find them out .
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May be you think these problems are too easy , but I have never contacted them before . Forum I visited and books about Linux I readed are both not mentioned them , so I wish you all could instruct me.
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------------------ Original ------------------
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From: "Nilesh Govindarajan"<contact@××××××××.com>;
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Date: Sun, Oct 9, 2011 10:09 AM
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To: "gentoo-user"<gentoo-user@l.g.o>;
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone can afford information about build kernel?
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On 10/09/2011 06:25 AM, Lavender wrote:
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> It seems that no matter I build gentoo manually or with genkernel I |
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> can't have a fine-working kernel finally. Obviously I must solve it by |
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> myself , so I determined to build entire kernel all manually , it |
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> requests a lot of linux knowlege . All for that, I hope someone could |
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> tell me where to get this information , I haven't found them on |
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> gentoo.org , so please lead me to the correct direction, thank you for |
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> you all ! |
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If you're new to building kernel, it will take some time to learn what
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modules you need what options you should enable, etc.
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You're building gentoo on some host Linux os, so you can use that os's
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lsmod utility to know what modules you require.
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Also, if some modules may be compiled right into the kernel you may not
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be able to see them in the lsmod produces, instead use lspci -v for that.
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One important thing I learnt the hard way while building gentoo for a
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server- Always compile the critical modules like disk controllers, RAID,
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also don't forget to use RAID autodetection if you're not going to use
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an initramfs and filesystems (involved at boot) statically.
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While citing my experience about building gentoo on a server, you have
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to do the things invisibly, so you can't see what the kernel emits befor
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panic.
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It turned out that I'd disabled RAID autodetection and wasn't using an
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initramfs either (which will load the arrays using mdadm).
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--
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Nilesh Govindarajan
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http://nileshgr.com |
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