Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 29 Oct 2001 20:38:42 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Ease of hardware configuration |
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On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 05:27:34PM -0600, Josh Hansen wrote: > Now here comes the radical part (ok, so all of this is somewhat radical): the > configuration utility connects to a server such as linuxdevicedrivers.org or > some other slick domain name and downloads the appropriate kernel module > binaries for the hardware based on kernel version number and architecture > (example: nVidia GeForce module for kernel 2.4.13 on i386, or USB Scanner > module for kernel 2.4.4 on PowerPC). Once the module is obtained, it is > loaded into the kernel (with explicit IO/IRQ parameters for older hardware if > necessary). > Once the module is loaded, the utility quits.
Please check out the linux-hotplug package: http://linux-hotplug.sf.net/
It does most of what you are talking about right now. And if it's missing anything that you want, feel free to contribute :)
thanks,
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