Wow, that's a good start! I'll keep your post aside for when I go through the kernel again (i'm not at the point of setting up all software).
At least, now that I got it working I can relax and start understanding what I've done! ;) Thanks a lot Mick! Simon > Not sure, because I've never done it! I keep using make menuconfig for edits. > > To find a particular driver in the maze of the kernel tree you can of course > spend hours studying it line by line, enabling and disabling each branch as > you go along (in six months you'll know it all by heart). Alternatively, you > could get a life and decide to press / while in menuconfig and enter some > suitable search terms. Also, I often cat .config | grep -i <search_word> to > find whether I have enabled something or other. > > After you compile a good kernel that does exactly what you want it to do, then > copy its .config into any new kernel fs that you emerge and run make > oldconfig instead. It'll prompt you for the changes and keep all your old > settings which you know work. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
