[geeks] 'Add new hardware' in Linux?

[Geek]

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Hmm. An ass in every crowd. These are ISA cards, not PCI, and I was
not expecting a windows like pop up saying it was installing drivers,
but I have found no other way other then reboot to have new hardware
recognized, which, what a shock, is why I was asking if there was a
way to do a hardware check in the command line. Thanks for the 4 Kb
of info I will never read. 


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- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jochen Kunz" <jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 7:25 AM
Subject: Re: [geeks] 'Add new hardware' in Linux?


> On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 06:33:16PM -0600, Geek wrote:
> 
> > Ok, I have tried for weeks, on and off, to get my Linux box to
> > see changes in hardware. 
> <BOFH mode>
> May it be possible that you have no clue about what you are doing
> and how things are working in Linux? And you are calling yourself
> a geek? Go and come back if you are grown up.
> </BOFH mode>
> 
> > If I take out all but the video card, nothing is
> > seen as changed. 
> This is no Wondozze that pops up "install driver bla" dialogs if 
> you pluged in new Hardware. 
> 
> > When I add a half dozen NIC's and a sound card,
> > nothing is seen as changed. 
> I like precise error descriptions like that.
> So I think you have problems getting drivers loaded for PCI cards 
> you that puged in. Have a look at /proc/pci, the cards should be
> there. If they are you should try to load the driver modules
> manually  using modprobe(8). What driver module is suitable for
> what card 
> can be read in /usr/src/linux/Documentation, the kernel source and 
> hardware HOWTOs. Sometimes you can guess the module name from the
> card name / chipset name and the .o files that are below
> /lib/modules. Verify that the modules are working. If you located
> the apropriate  modules, put them into /etc/modules.conf. There are
> man pages for  modules.conf(5) and the associated programms like
> depmod(8), modprobe(8),  insmod(8), lsmod(8). If you set up
> /etc/modules.conf the right way the  modules will be loaded
> automagicly if you try to access the hardware. -- 
> 
> 
> 
> tsch|_,
>          Jochen
> 
> Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
> 
> p.s. Yes. I have a very stange sense of humor and I am proud of it.
>  
>      MUUuaahahaha!
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