Re: What's in my kernel?


Subject: Re: What's in my kernel?
From: Keary Suska (hierophant@pcisys.net)
Date: Wed Dec 26 2001 - 23:50:48 MST


Under /usr/src/linux, there should be a directory called "config" of
something similar. Which config you would look at is relatively obvious. You
can grep this file for your module name to see the status (either compiled
in, loadable, or not compiled at all).

Keary Suska
Esoteritech, Inc.
"Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"

> From: Andy Hocker <hocker@fnal.gov>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 00:27:27 -0600 (CST)
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: What's in my kernel?
>
>
> I'm not really a newbie, but this is a newbie-esque question.
> A lot of times when you're trying to make something work
> in Linux you read stuff like "make sure you have X and Y and
> Z compiled into your kernel." If I had compiled my kernel
> myself I'd know what was in there, but currently I'm working
> off the kernel built by the YDL 2.1 install. So, how do I
> go about figuring out if X/Y/Z are in there or not?
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
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