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 1RCmNA-00086u-6i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2011 05:56:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A3E921C135; Sun, 9 Oct 2011 05:56:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from s1.itech7.com (s1.itech7.com [94.76.222.184]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEE9321C054 for ; Sun, 9 Oct 2011 05:55:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by s1.itech7.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE6393E60 for ; Sun, 9 Oct 2011 11:25:10 +0530 (IST) Message-ID: <4E913740.9090909@nileshgr.com> Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2011 11:25:12 +0530 From: Nilesh Govindarajan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111007 Thunderbird/7.0.1 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] Anyone can afford information about build kernel? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: e6d90501c83e0125ea28ebaf1a333f6c On Sun 09 Oct 2011 10:23:50 AM IST, Lavender wrote: > Yeah, your reply is exact what I mean , but I'm really confused by > those modules' names, I can't find any contact between the hard device > name and its module name . For example, there is a module named > 3c59x.ko , I totally don't know what device it present for , I mean I > can't figure out that which module correspond to which device though I > know the hard devices consisted of my PC. So I need information about > contact between them so that I could know what modules need to be > chosen in kernel , also the options of kernel are quiet a lot , > there're many features that I never heard , I want to find them out . > May be you think these problems are too easy , but I have never > contacted them before . Forum I visited and books about Linux I readed > are both not mentioned them , so I wish you all could instruct me. Kernel module names are usually named according to a specific naming scheme like .ko So here, 3c59x.ko is 3COM 59X device. 3COM ethernet cards are quite common. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com