On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Neil Hollow wrote:
> I had a first go at this last night-you could call it a practise on
> linux-2.2.18.tar.bz2. I got as far as make xconfig. Its not as frightening
> as I thought it would be but has raised some new questions...
>
> First I could find no mention of USB support in the xconfig window. From
> the USB pages I've found on the web I assumed it would have its own section
> (button). There is a documentation section in the documentation sub
> directories of the . The only thing I could think it it could be down to
> (after I shut the machine down last night) was that before running oldconfig
> for the second time I copied my old .config file to the new kernel source
> directory since the first time I ran it I realised (or thought) it was
> refering to my new kernel source. I won't bother with oldconfig again.
>
With xconfig, it should be in the second column - between "Character
devices" and "Filesystems".
>
> The next question is I could only seem to select parallel printer support as
> a module and not complile it into my new kernel. I don't think in my
> existing setup lp is a module. This is after selecting parallel support as
> a module -in my existing setup this latter definitely is.
>
It is a modules in the stock RedHat kernel. This is so you can share
the port with things like ZIP drives...
>
> Also should I compile in kmod this was deaulting to to no. In my existing
> RH6.0 system is kmod used and how do I find out. If I use this to load
> modules as required do I have to do any more configeration and if so what.
> Ta. NH.
>
Yes, you want to say to the three "Loadable module support" questions.
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