How do I identify which modules I need to load?

mmartin · n00b Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 45

Hello,

I'm quite new to Linux and was wondering if there is any way to identify my Hardware (during the Gentoo installation), so that I know which modules I need to load?

thx
martin

Edit:
Sure I could just look inside my machine but I'm wondering about the Possibilities

ebrostig

mooman · Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2002 1:47 am Post subject:

There are great utilities to do this, but they usually need a working OS first.

One example is SiSoft's Sandra (http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/index.php?location=sware) which works under most Windows flavors.

I'm sure someone around here could suggest a similar benchmarking/diagnostic tool for Linux....
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mmartin · n00b Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 45

At the moment I'm running on dual boot with SuSE80 and WinXP, I found out that people that need a pptp connection had problems to connect to the net. So I'll try to intall throu chroot. Only problem: I don't know much about modules, for example I got some Realtec Network Card that is supported under Linux but I'm trying to install without opening my pc
so I'd need some ressource that tells me what modules I can use for what hardware
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lx · Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2002 12:12 pm Post subject:

If you already have a running linux distro, you can normally check what modules are running by doing cat /proc/modules.

Cya lX.
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Lasitus · Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2002 5:00 pm Post subject:

Is it an old Linksys?

dc21x4x DECchip Tulip
RTL-8139

are common ones for D-Link and Linksys cards

I thought mine was a realtek chip, but the RTL-8139 was not working. The DECchip Tulip worked like a charm though. I assume you are configuring your kernel... The live CD kernel included my NIC. The way I found out what mine was by compiling all NICs in and taking out the ones I didn't think were mine and rebooting and seeing if it still worked.

lx · Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2002 5:37 pm Post subject:

Lasitus · Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2002 12:48 am Post subject:

true true... I wanted them in my kernel and did it the hard way... oh well. Only took like 3 reboots though