So anyway, it was like, 12:44 CEST Oct 25 2004, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
hot_rage was all like, "Dude,
> Johan Lindquist <spam@smilfinken.net> wrote in
> news:k8mh42-4b.ln1@news.smilfinken.net:

>> You can use for instance lspci and dmesg to figure out what
>> hardware you have. The gentoo livecd might give some hints too, if
>> you look at which modules were successfully loaded during the boot
>> sequence. Or a knoppix livecd.
>
> i did a "lspci" of course, but never heard of dmesg before (it's
> nice to learn a little bit more every day, thx).
>
> the linux livecd uses a 2.4-kernel AFAIK but on my machine i use the
> 2.6.7-kernel from the gentoo-dev-sources provided by the livecd. is
> there a difference in the modules that are used?

Yes, modules have changed names and been added/removed between 2.4 and
2.6. You should perhaps try to find a livecd that uses a 2.6 kernel
instead.

Familiarity with your own hardware will of course be a good starting
point in either case. If you know what's in your machine, you can
probably find and tick off most of the stuff you'll need in the
menuconfig dialogs.

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