Stuart Ballard wrote:
Is there any way to get modconf to install on the current release of
potato? Failing that, what are the necessary commands at the console to:
1) See what modules my kernel is compiled to support (I know what they
are, just not the module names - they were never mentioned in make
xconfig)
2) See the help on a module's parameter format
3) Attempt to add a module into the running kernel with a given set of
parameters
4) Set things up so that the module I just added will be added next time
I boot as well
On a related note, I can't seem to get gnome-apt to install either - it
wants an unavailable version of libapt-pkg2.5. Any ideas on this one?
Thanks,
Stuart.
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Stuart,
The modconf problem (as with ae, newt and whiptail) stems from an upgraded
slang -
the other progs are yet to be updated to work with the new slang. The only way
to
get them to work again is to downgrade slang to an older version, if you have
one
kicking around - the slink one might work but I don't know if it's too early a
version (haven't tried).
You can browse the modules compiled in
/lib/modules/(kernel version)/
The files in dirs there (e.g. misc, scsi, net etc) are the modules that can be
loaded
by listing in /etc/modules. Adding modules here causes them to load at next
boot. I
actually prefer to add modules manually to /etc/modules as I find modutils
sometimes
destroys little additions I have made to the module options file (see below...),
specifically one which loads a soundbank into my Awe64.
Module loading options can be defined in /etc/conf.modules - this changed to
the
more logical modules.conf with the recent (last night?) modutils update to
potato.
Additions like (eg for an SB AWE32/64)
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
options opl3 io=0x388
etc
To get help on a module's parameters, you want to be reading the files in the
Documentation folder of a Kernel source - if you don't have a kernel source in
/usr/src/linux (do you roll your own?), Debian allows you to install
documentation
e.g. with the package
kernel-doc-2.2.12 (there are other versions also)
I can't help you with the gnome-apt issue though.
Jonathan.
