http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6244
Summary: [RFE] support for installing separate 3rd party modules
to the system
Product: harddrake
Version: 9.2-9mdk
Platform: PC
OS/Version: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: harddrake
AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The possibility to add separate binary (or even source?) modules to the system
and let Drakconf/Harddrake know about them would be useful. I believe SuSe does
something like this with Yast2 although I have not tried using the feature.
An example:
I was installing 9.2 for a friend and his ethernet card (3c940 handled by the
3c2000 module) was not available in the default install so I had to compile the
module, place it by hand into the kernel module directory, run depmod and make
sure it would get loaded. After this I attempted lauching DrakConnect to
configure the LAN settings but it would not let me go past the device selection
screen because it had no knowledge of the ethernet driver I had just installed.
If Mandrake would let me select a new kernel module to install, figure out (by
asking or whatever) the type of hardware it is supposed to be used with and let
me configure a device using it, this would've been very easy (sans the actual
compilation).
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