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Subject: Re: Aunt Tillie builds a kernel (was Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution)
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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 21:21:30 +0000 (GMT)
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> > > "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
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