I want to build a new kernel from scratch. (A new experience for me.) When I run make xconfig, I get lots of NIC choices. I don't want to enable them all. How can I tell which NIC driver I need. I can currently boot into the standard SuSE 8.0 kernel with no problem, so I'm hoping there is a tool which will tell which driver is being used. TIA Greg Freemyer Internet Engineer Deployment and Integration Specialist Compaq ASE - Tru64 v4, v5 Compaq Master ASE - SAN Architect The Norcross Group www.NorcrossGroup.com
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 04:09:01PM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
I want to build a new kernel from scratch. (A new experience for me.)
When I run make xconfig, I get lots of NIC choices. I don't want to enable them all. How can I tell which NIC driver I need.
I can currently boot into the standard SuSE 8.0 kernel with no problem, so I'm hoping there is a tool which will tell which driver is being used.
Just run /sbin/lsmod and look for NIC module in the output. My machine which uses Intel EtherPro reports: e100 53664 1 (autoclean) Or, even better, grep for eth0 in /etc/modules.conf: kastus@kastus3:~> grep eth0 /etc/modules.conf alias eth0 e100 Regards, -Kastus
When I run make xconfig, I get lots of NIC choices. I don't want to enable them all. How can I tell which NIC driver I need.
I can currently boot into the standard SuSE 8.0 kernel with no problem, so I'm
Well assuming your current NIC works you can check /var/log/boot.msg this will show your last boot message. Usually when the NIC cards get configured it will show the type.
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