[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: More about kernel recompiling.

[Scott Denlinger]

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>But were there any modules that (1) you wanted to load, (2) you hadn't
>built into the kernel, but had built as modules, and (3) you couldn't
>load?
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Basically, no. When I first recompiled a plain 2.4.18 kernel, I was 
under the impression that I should build things into the kernel, rather 
than build them as modules. So I had a lot of things "hardwired" in, and 
very few modules. I have since learned that this isn't necessarily 
always a good thing. My biggest problem when I attempted my kernel 
compile was that things that I *wasn't* compiling as modules weren't 
getting recognized at bootup. I am thinking specifically of the kernel 
support for my two NICs. The default kernel had them compiled as 
modules. I thought they should be part of the kernel, but the recompiled 
kernel didn't load them. So since I hadn't specified that they be 
compiled as modules, I didn't assume that I should treat them as 
modules. Was this wrong? Even after I loaded *all* the modules I 
compiled, my NICs weren't functional. Maybe this is a sign that the 
problem never was a module problem to begin with, but something else.

Scott Denlinger