Yes you can add in hardware drivers at boot time, this is the job of udev and others. All hardware has a vendor id which can be queried from the device bus (have a loof as lspci and lsusb to see what i mean). When the kernel sees a device it aquires the vendor/device id pair and check to see if it has been compiled with an appropriate driver, if it fins one it binds the device to the driver if it does not it consults a set of files to find the driver needed (/lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.*), the kernel then loads the appropriate driver from the file system and binds to it.
<br><br>You can add in drivers yourself via modprobe.conf<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>MCSE is to computers as McDonalds Certified Chef is to fine cuisine.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 30/11/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">walt</b> <<a href="mailto:walt@helvatron.co.uk">walt@helvatron.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I will do that, thanks.<br><br>One question, I read somewhere that the latest linux kernels can be<br>assembled at boot time. I have never figured out how to that but I think<br>it was in Redhat where some hardware drivers could be added as a script and
<br>would then 'bound in' (or something) as the kernel loads.<br><br>I'll have a look around and see what I can find.<br><br>Walter<br><br>From: <a href="mailto:watford-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk">watford-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk
</a><br>[mailto:<a href="mailto:watford-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk">watford-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>] On Behalf Of Neel Upadhyaya<br>Sent: 30 November 2007 12:25<br>To: <a href="mailto:watford@mailman.lug.org.uk">watford@mailman.lug.org.uk
</a><br>Subject: Re: [Watford] Suse 10.3 hangs for 2 minutes at start of boot<br>sequence.<br><br>It looks like a kernel patch which means you'd have to apply it to the<br>kernel source.<br><br>It might be worth hunting around to find out is the patch has been included
<br>in any kernel versions, then you could find a package for that kernel or<br>start from the already patched source.<br><br>Have a quick hunt for a package first, and if you're unlucky then I could<br>walk you through a kernel compilation.
<br><br>-N<br><br>--<br>MCSE is to computers as McDonalds Certified Chef is to fine cuisine.<br>On 30/11/2007, walt <<a href="mailto:walt@helvatron.co.uk">walt@helvatron.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>Thanks Cliff,I'll check it out.
<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:watford-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk">watford-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>[mailto: <a href="mailto:watford-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk">watford-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk
</a>] On Behalf Of Cliff Deamer<br>Sent: 30 November 2007 11:57<br>To: <a href="mailto:watford@mailman.lug.org.uk">watford@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>Subject: Re: [Watford] Suse 10.3 hangs for 2 minutes at start of boot<br>
sequence.<br><br>Hi Walt,<br>There is discussion of this at<br><a href="http://communities.vmware.com/thread/106121">http://communities.vmware.com/thread/106121</a> and a suggested solution.<br>Cliff<br><br>On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 10:07 +0000, walt wrote:
<br>> Hi all,<br>><br>> Further to my previous email,I now have an error message:<br>><br>> Comreset failed (errorno 960 or 976)<br>><br>> This is what takes ages, like 2 - 3 minutes, before the system starts
<br>> loading. Can anybody tell me what it means and what to do about it.<br>><br>> Many thanks,Walter<br>><br>><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>> ---<br>
><br>> Hi,<br>><br>> I tried to upgrade Suse 10.2 to 10.3 but that failed so I did a clean,<br>fresh<br>> install with a freshly partitioned harddisk.Suse displays the boot<br>options<br>> screen and then switches to the normal splash screen where you should be
<br>> able to press esc to get to text screen showing you what its doing.<br>><br>> And this is the problem,its sits there for 2 minutes or more and the<br>> keyboard won't respond.Then it finally starts the boot process at which
<br>> point I can press esc to see the progress. Once it starts it behaves<br>> normally but I have to eliminate the long delay before it boots.<br>><br>> Any ideas?I have already removed all peripherals especially usb devices
<br>> but to no avail.<br>><br>> Walter<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Watford mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:Watford@mailman.lug.org.uk">Watford@mailman.lug.org.uk
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