> Yes, you want to say to the three "Loadable module support" questions. I
assume this was a yes? and is that it as as far as kmod is concerned I had
a look at kmod.txt but was non the wiser. NH.
> From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 03:40:14 -0600 (CST)
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: kernel upgrade or recompile from 2.2.5 to 2.4.0
>
> On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Neil Hollow wrote:
>
>> I had a first go at this last night-you could call it a practise on
>> linux-2.2.18.tar.bz2. I got as far as make xconfig. Its not as frightening
>> as I thought it would be but has raised some new questions...
>>
>> First I could find no mention of USB support in the xconfig window. From
>> the USB pages I've found on the web I assumed it would have its own section
>> (button). There is a documentation section in the documentation sub
>> directories of the . The only thing I could think it it could be down to
>> (after I shut the machine down last night) was that before running oldconfig
>> for the second time I copied my old .config file to the new kernel source
>> directory since the first time I ran it I realised (or thought) it was
>> refering to my new kernel source. I won't bother with oldconfig again.
>>
> With xconfig, it should be in the second column - between "Character
> devices" and "Filesystems".
>>
>> The next question is I could only seem to select parallel printer support as
>> a module and not complile it into my new kernel. I don't think in my
>> existing setup lp is a module. This is after selecting parallel support as
>> a module -in my existing setup this latter definitely is.
>>
> It is a modules in the stock RedHat kernel. This is so you can share
> the port with things like ZIP drives...
>>
>> Also should I compile in kmod this was deaulting to to no. In my existing
>> RH6.0 system is kmod used and how do I find out. If I use this to load
>> modules as required do I have to do any more configeration and if so what.
>> Ta. NH.
>>
> Yes, you want to say to the three "Loadable module support" questions.
>
>
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