From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PhaIz-0000sT-3F for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 04:14:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A2C38E0959; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 04:13:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E5A3E0959 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 04:13:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywa6 with SMTP id 6so2641887ywa.40 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:13:28 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=4jBrHWzeBO2N/JXRbleJ0XIqWRAWTk7+VkWvr1GAIzw=; b=N9EYi+sXBr0yu6b0dK3sz9BbkfMa5bpqm40zej9pIf4vTp3mUzUyDoY49GTPBVPk3s n37F4bzFQmT0dlDqzHwpKy1HP/uHWNxQCpCvGBHGnRCOEq+puhBv38PcGUThSI2lLN/0 iS0jodb1fuuOex0PHaHU87HHMOcztZLEKdHVA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=xQFAT5tk6QuJ+G6XQemIv0Q7E0FnS9yyo8LhVaBai/isYfJdk5FJJoufQzoE9zlZHP MjiaYWBcU5g4dOYhmRvEfwHTEutUFX74n8Pm5CCN2Dkv8zy46JGCmhK8OE57UFsVFPwG Ii5INe0oITOtRK9zb+1tyOQ/636RIKS+oeZfU= Received: by 10.100.153.17 with SMTP id a17mr3513454ane.239.1295928807829; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:13:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.41] (r74-195-172-106.chk1cmtc01.chckok.ok.dh.suddenlink.net [74.195.172.106]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c28sm17142070ana.1.2011.01.24.20.13.26 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:13:26 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D3E4DF3.6000302@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:13:39 -0600 From: James Wall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101212 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Identifying missing modules... References: <20110123180815.GC4486@solfire> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: efb182f8815ae6dfc442f7d8c9e1fe4d -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/11 16:13, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 10:08 AM, wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> when doing as root >> >> lspci -vk >> >> I get all pci devices and "bus inhabitants" listed. >> Additionally there are often two lines added to each >> device saying similiar things like: >> >> Kernel driver in use: >XYZ> >> Kernel modules: >> >> and there other devices do not have similiar entries. >> >> My question is: How can I distinguish devices/entities, >> which do not need any driver to work and those, which >> need a driver but in the current setup the driver wasn't >> compiled in/compiled as module? >> >> Thank you very much in advance for any help! >> Best regards, >> mcc > > Devices that need a driver are listed as 'Kernel driver in use:' > whether the driver is compiled in or not. > > Devices that have their driver compiled in do not have the line > 'Kernel modules:' > > Devices that have neither line are controlled by the kernel but don't > need anything from the driver section. > > I suppose there is the possibility that lspci could find a PCI device > which hasn't had a driver selected as module or builtin and then not > show anything. In this case I expect that the device wouldn't > function. > > Hope this helps, > Mark > Check out http://www.kernel-seeds.org for a walkthrough of kernel configuration or dump the results of lspci -n into http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ for a list of modules James Wall - -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNPk3zAAoJEISPTA/exVD8/WgH/114CSqMLPm0us9gOnUJmJZM 8bvpZDa1x5xWCjLcI4zn0fwqo8UZpQBGjFYDtrrGnSwXpZSbN4H0mCCZOVZDoNFZ 0szNemJwF68oMm8u71D5LFBianCZfCQmsMAf5bC0nG4SJe80YnREDPJVRt9xvl91 lBRrBDvV1ZxOzOl/gBIA3si8aiKWQ6V+WeoQi7nO1zaCWMw1p8LuyoONuPModl+U sjt67czGRE6bnC8Y5Lu48v4zJU6jKM20zjdTaTPcrLOce0kzYNqBFRnDCWRO2TRu jr+Se9JNcq97IQOWSiwPcCUW1Q3a9p2+WAz045FUwrKkT/08OvRKDw4S9rdSLa0= =77yQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----