Mailing List Archive: Drivers during installation

Drivers during installation

Sep 6, 2004, 2:03 AM

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I have been using Linux for a few years but am in the middle of installing
Gentoo for the first time. One question I am unsure about is what drivers to
install. Mandrake appeared to install the following:

sata_via
libdata
via_rhine
mii
serial
sbp2
usb_storage
hid
uhci
ehci_hcd
usbcore

The list sounds sensible (via chipset mobo with two drives, one ide, one
sata). Where do I find these on Gentoo? I tried seaching the online ebuilds
database for libdata and got nothing.

Kevin.

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Re: Drivers during installation [ In reply to ]

rspi at gmx

Sep 6, 2004, 2:21 AM

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Hi Kevin,

On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 11:03, Kevin Philp wrote:
> I have been using Linux for a few years but am in the middle of installing
> Gentoo for the first time. One question I am unsure about is what drivers to
> install. Mandrake appeared to install the following:
>
> sata_via
> libdata
> via_rhine
> mii
> serial
> sbp2
> usb_storage
> hid
> uhci
> ehci_hcd
> usbcore

That seems to be a list of kernel modules.

> The list sounds sensible (via chipset mobo with two drives, one ide, one
> sata). Where do I find these on Gentoo? I tried seaching the online ebuilds
> database for libdata and got nothing.

You should try '/sbin/modprobe <module_name>' to see if it already
exists. If it doesn't you should build a new kernel.

Greetz,

RSp

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Re: Drivers during installation [ In reply to ]

ajai at bway

Sep 7, 2004, 11:10 AM

Post #3 of 3 (945 views)

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On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Kevin Philp wrote:

> I have been using Linux for a few years but am in the middle of installing
> Gentoo for the first time. One question I am unsure about is what drivers to
> install. Mandrake appeared to install the following:
>
> sata_via
> libdata
> via_rhine
> mii
> serial
> sbp2
> usb_storage
> hid
> uhci
> ehci_hcd
> usbcore
>
> The list sounds sensible (via chipset mobo with two drives, one ide, one
> sata). Where do I find these on Gentoo? I tried seaching the online ebuilds
> database for libdata and got nothing.

You can run lspci for this info (emerge pciutils if it isn't installed).

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