Re: Autodetect hardware...
High,
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> Recently, I upgrade my kernel to 2.4.8 from a 2.2 kernel. During the
> process, my modutils files got overwritten by clean copies, losing all my
> hardware configurations. I unwisely did not make a backup of /etc before
> doing this.
>
Are the files really changed, or is it just that no modules are loaded?
When upgrading to 2.4, you also need to install modutils-2.4, because the
modules tree is different.
> My question is, is it possible to re-detect all my hardware and generate a
> new set of modutils files? Since the install program correctly identified
> my hardware, I must assume there is some way to generate this data. The
> reason I ask, is that the server is across town and I don't want to have to
> go over there to check what hardware is inside just to configure it.
>
Use modconf to configure your hardware. But, the nwe modutils needs to be
installed first.
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
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