Finding components in menuconfig

Azariah · n00b Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 8

I've got Gentoo installed, but I didn't modularize my hardware drivers correctly, so I'm missing a few things. I know the process of finding the driver in menuconfig, marking an M next to it, and then compiling the modules (kernel 2.6), but I'm having trouble correlating the output of lsmod to what I see in menuconfig.

When I boot using the LiveCD I get the following output of lsmod

nixnut · Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 7:07 pm Post subject:

go to /usr/src/linux
do make menuconfig to make a config file for compiling your kernel.
For most options there's a short help text available explaining what it's for. Alternatively you can edit the config file by hand. This is handy is you already know which options you want to enable. Just search for them in the config file (default name is .config) and edit them.
Most of the stuff listed in your lsmod output is usb stuff, so look in the usb section.

mike4148 · l33t Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 641

If you look at the help for an option, it will usually have a blurb at the bottom telling you the name of the module. Keep in mind that some menu entries won't show up at all unless you enable something else (for the modules you've listed, it would have to be something extremely obvious; e.g., if you don't enable USB support, you will obviously not see any of the USB drivers).

usb-storage, hid, uhci, ehci-hcd, and usbcore are all in the USB section (Device drivers->USB support in 2.6). serial is in the Character devices section (under Device drivers). isa-pnp is in the Plug and play support section (under Device drivers, again).

Azariah · n00b Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 8

Thanks for the help. I seem to have resolved most of my module issues.