Re: IDE Disk Controllers: Natively supported / detecting them ....

[jim biri <jim.biri@gmail.com>]

Thanks.

So - how do I find out what cards/chipsets are supported in the 2.6
kernel before installing it?

Jim.


On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 14:42:25 +0100 (CET), Ernst-Magne Vindal
<ernst@vindal.com> wrote:
> 
> if U're no sure about the module name, run "modconf" and look at available
> modules
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, jim biri wrote:
> 
> > Hi Christopher,
> > Thanks for replying yet again ....... and sorry to keep banging on
> > about this stuff .... but, yet another question .......
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > When you plug in the card, linux'll probably not do anything, since your
> > > kernel might not have the modules needed loaded into it. In which case
> > > you should do
> > >
> > > modprobe "module_name"
> > >
> > > depending on which car you've got (and which kernel you've got).
> > >
> > > For instance:
> > >
> > > modprobde pdc202xx_new
> >
> >
> > OK - so my dumb-ass question is .... how do you know what to probe
> > for? can you probe for just part of the name e.g. modprobede pdc* - or
> > do you have to know the precise name of the module to probe for?
> >
> > Thanks yet again .......
> > Jim.
> >
> >
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