Monolithic vs Modular Kernel?

[Roland Smith]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 09:39:03AM +0200, David Naylor wrote:
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> Also, is there anyway to detect if there are hardware without drivers (such as 
> a sound card without any snd_ loaded) and to detect the type of device (e.g. 
> network, usb, sound, graphics)?

pciconf -lv|less

Every device name (the lines with the @ in them) that starts with 'none' does
not have a driver loaded. The following lines show you what kind of device it is.

> Lastly, is there any way to determine what 'modules' a kernel is build with?

ls /boot/kernel/

All the files that end in .ko are loadable modules.

Roland
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